Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhite men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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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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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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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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