I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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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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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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.
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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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