We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Independence is happiness.
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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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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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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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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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