It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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