The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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.
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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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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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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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Independence is happiness.
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