It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWoman 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?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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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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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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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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