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.
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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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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If I could only live another century!
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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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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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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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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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