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If I could only live another century!

Susan B. Anthony

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Government Justice Love never Principle
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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Cause Certain Law Lesson Moral Penalty Prevention Violation Woman Work
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. ANTHONY

Admire Equality Feminism Marriage
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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Bicycle Picture Rejoice Ride Stand Time Wheel Woman
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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Equality Existence Foundation Freedom Genuine Indepemdence Manhood Real Save Womanhood
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Guarantee Justice never Sentiment
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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Favor Fear Freedom Newspaper Woman Writing
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Enemy Pulpit Women Worst
Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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Class Degrade Face Globe History Labor Page
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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Different Grandmother Invention Law Modernization Progress Wheel Woman
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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Advance Freedom Noble People Progress Women
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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Believe Feminism Opponent Person Question Settle Women
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Care Cast Caution Effect People Preserve Reform Reputation
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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Brutal Consideration Country Divorce Evil Marriage Master Men Refuge Slave
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Earn Equality Estimate Willing World
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. ANTHONY

Born Bread Brother Depend Desire Eat Father Feminism Hand Husband Person Power She Woman

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