When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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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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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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