White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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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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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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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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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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 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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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