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.
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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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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If 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.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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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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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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 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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