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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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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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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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