We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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Independence is happiness.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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