The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYMarriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for 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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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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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Independence is happiness.
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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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