Susan B. Anthony quotes - page 2

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows. (Susan B. Anthony)
When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave. View quote
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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. View quote
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me. View quote
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval. View quote
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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. 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. View quote
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I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law. View quote
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Even, under such circumstances, a commoner of England, tried before a jury of Lords, would have far less cause to complain than should I, a woman, tried before a jury of men. View quote
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I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand. View quote
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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. View quote
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth. (Susan B. Anthony)
Every woman should have a purse of her own. View quote
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Susan B. Anthony)
But, yesterday, the same man-made forms of law, declared it a crime punishable with $1,000 fine and six months' imprisonment, for you, or me, or any of us, to give a cup of cold water, a crust of bread, or a night's shelter to a panting fugitive as he was tracking his way to Canada. And every man or woman in whose veins coursed a drop of human sympathy violated that wicked law, reckless of consequences, and was justified in so doing. View quote
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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less. View quote
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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages. View quote
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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. View quote
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