There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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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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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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