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. ANTHONYHow shall we ever make the world intelligent?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Independence is happiness.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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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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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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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