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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNothing is hopeless that is right.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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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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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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