To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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