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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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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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