Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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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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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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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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