Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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I 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.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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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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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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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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