What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhat an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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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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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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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