Susan B. Anthony on empowerment
“Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.”
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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