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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYFor a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Independence is happiness.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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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 fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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