I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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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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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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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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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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