You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWomen, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes 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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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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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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 self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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If I could only live another century!
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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.
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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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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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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