There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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 self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Independence is happiness.
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