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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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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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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 women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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