Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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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.
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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 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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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