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.
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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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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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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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Independence is happiness.
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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