The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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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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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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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 genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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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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