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. ANTHONYThere shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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