It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYHow shall we ever make the world intelligent?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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.
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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