For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYForget 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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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 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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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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