Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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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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