The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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 declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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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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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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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