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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYHow shall we ever make the world intelligent?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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 self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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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 every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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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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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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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