You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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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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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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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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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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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