I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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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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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.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Independence is happiness.
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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