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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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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 I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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