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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWherever women gather together failure is impossible.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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