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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhat an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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