The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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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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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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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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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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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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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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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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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