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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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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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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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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