Suffrage is the pivotal right.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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If I could only live another century!
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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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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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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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.
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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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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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