This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependence is happiness.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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There 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.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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