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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIf I could only live another century!
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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