Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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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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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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