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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIf 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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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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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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If I could only live another century!
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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The 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.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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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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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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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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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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