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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTo be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Independence is happiness.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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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 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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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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