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. 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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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If I could only live another century!
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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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.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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