I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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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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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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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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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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Independence is happiness.
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