Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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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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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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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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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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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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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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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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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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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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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