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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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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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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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