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.
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 women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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If I could only live another century!
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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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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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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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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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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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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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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 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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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 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 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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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