I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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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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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.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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 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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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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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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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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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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