Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYShe who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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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.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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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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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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