There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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