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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYOur Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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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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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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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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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 stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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 genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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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