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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.Susan B. Anthony
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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
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...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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Failure is impossible.Susan B. Anthony
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Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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Oh yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.Susan B. Anthony
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Independence is happiness.Susan B. Anthony
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.Susan B. Anthony
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The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?Susan B. Anthony
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.Susan B. Anthony
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.Susan B. Anthony
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.Susan B. Anthony
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The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.Susan B. Anthony
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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.Susan B. Anthony
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.Susan B. Anthony
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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.Susan B. Anthony
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.Susan B. Anthony
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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
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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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.Susan B. Anthony
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No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.Susan B. Anthony