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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhite men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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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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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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