When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhen woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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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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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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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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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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Independence is happiness.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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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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If I could only live another century!
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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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