The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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 only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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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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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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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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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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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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