American - Activist | February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906
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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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.
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If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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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.
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I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
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Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
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