Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNo man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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 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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