Independence is happiness.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYLiberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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If I could only live another century!
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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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 worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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.
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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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