I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYEvery woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThose who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYCautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTo be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIf 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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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