Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYHow shall we ever make the world intelligent?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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.
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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 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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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