A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependence is happiness.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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 woman should have a purse of her own.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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