It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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.
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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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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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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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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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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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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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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