I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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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 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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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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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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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