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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIf I could only live another century!
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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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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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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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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.
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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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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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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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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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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.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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