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. ANTHONYThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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