You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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 I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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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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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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Independence is happiness.
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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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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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