There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of 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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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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