No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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 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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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If I could only live another century!
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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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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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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