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.
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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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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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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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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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