A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYGovernments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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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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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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