How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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 fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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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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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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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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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