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. ANTHONYIndependent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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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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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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 will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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