Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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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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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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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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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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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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