Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of 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 women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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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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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 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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