Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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