I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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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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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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