To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWherever women gather together failure is impossible.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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