Better lose me than lose a state.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony
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Puneet MehraPuneet Mehra Forcing things only creates more tension in the mind. Let go.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase It doesn’t take courage to find peace in the arms of destiny. It takes faith.
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
Therese of LisieuxTherese of Lisieux The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn’t based on external factors.
Tony HsiehTony Hsieh And I try, I so try to fit everywhere, with everyone to be neutral, to be good and with all that, I lose myself. I lose the truest layer of all.
Zuzanna SzostakZuzanna Szostak If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.
Bill ClintonBill Clinton I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, ‘I’m going to do this’.
Howard SchultzHoward Schultz