I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIf 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Independence is happiness.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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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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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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