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.
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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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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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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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