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?
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThose of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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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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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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