I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhen I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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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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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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