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.
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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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize 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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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Independence is happiness.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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