If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNo self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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 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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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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