Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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.
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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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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 never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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