There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependence is happiness.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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 who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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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 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.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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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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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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