If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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