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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYBetter lose me than lose a state.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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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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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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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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