It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYEvery discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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 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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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