American - Activist | February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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.
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Failure is impossible.
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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.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
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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.
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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.
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