For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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 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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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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