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.
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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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Independence is happiness.
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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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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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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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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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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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 worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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I 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.
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