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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYHow shall we ever make the world intelligent?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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 was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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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 distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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