The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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 worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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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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