No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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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 expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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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 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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