The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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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.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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 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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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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If I could only live another century!
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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