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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.

Susan B. Anthony

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Equality Learning Woman Women Rights
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Believe Feminism Opponent Person Question Settle Women
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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Guarantee Justice never Sentiment
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Dog Moon Vote Women Women Rights
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Demand Employ Equality Pay Service Understand Value Women Women Empowerment Work
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Cause Certain Law Lesson Moral Penalty Prevention Violation Woman Work
It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Change Disconnection Try
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.
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Accident Birth Cast Class Color Government Incident Individual Principle Race Racism Regard Scare Sex Violation
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Different Grandmother Invention Law Modernization Progress Wheel Woman
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Different Feminism Reception Rose Throw
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Dog Door Leaving Life Measure Memories Milestone Real
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Earn Earth Girl Happiness Independence Live Security Sweet Women Empowerment
Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

National Officer Retirement Salary Wages
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Chain Fact Realize Women
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Desire God Notice People Trust
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Children Concentration Ideal Improvement Money People Public Religion Rich School

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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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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