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?
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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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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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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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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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