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. ANTHONYWherever, 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.
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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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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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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 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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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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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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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