Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependence is happiness.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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