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.
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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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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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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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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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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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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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