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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYOh, 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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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 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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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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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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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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