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. ANTHONY
Independence is happiness.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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.
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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.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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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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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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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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