Susan B. Anthony quotes - page 3

We no longer petition legislature or Congress to give of the right to vote, but appeal to women everywhere to exercise their too long neglected "citizen's right" ... We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. (Susan B. Anthony)
The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man. View quote
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An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation. View quote
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Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. View quote
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Once men were afraid of women with ideas and a desire to vote. Today, our best suffragists are sought in marriage by the best class of men. View quote
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One half of the people of this Nation today are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write a new and just one. View quote
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The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self, - do her own individual work - stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strengh... She will proclaim the "glad tidings of good news" to all women, that woman equally with man was made for her own individual happiness, to develop every power of her three fold-nature, to use, worthily every talent given to her by God, in the great work of life. View quote
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No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death, but oh, thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation that impelled her to the crime! View quote
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Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. View quote
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May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. View quote
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Failure is impossible” - Susan B. Anthony. (Susan B. Anthony)
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. View quote
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The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. View quote
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It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... how much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex, to talk of male and female education and of male and female schools. [written with Elizabeth Cady Stanton]. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. View quote
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The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires. View quote
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No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex. (Susan B. Anthony)
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation. View quote
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Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. View quote
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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. . . View quote
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So long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman. View quote
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