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. ANTHONYNot one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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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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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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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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