I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYModern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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 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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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