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. ANTHONYTo think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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 have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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