I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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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.
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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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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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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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.
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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.
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