Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYBetter lose me than lose a state.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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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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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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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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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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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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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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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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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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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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The 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.
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