Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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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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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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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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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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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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 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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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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