If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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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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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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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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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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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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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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