Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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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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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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