When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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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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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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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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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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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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