There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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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.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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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.
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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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