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title: "4 Earnest Quotes By 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. Those who are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/cautious-careful-people-always-casting-about-to-preserve-their/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

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> [Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/those-who-are-really-in-earnest-must-be-willing-to-be-anything-or/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

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> [... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/women-of-the-north-i-ask-you-to-rise-up-with-earnest-honest-purpose/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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. Those who are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/cautious-careful-people-always-casting-about-to-preserve-their-3/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

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## Other authors on Earnest

## More by Susan B. Anthony

> [I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/i-stand-and-rejoice-every-time-i-see-a-woman-ride-by-on-a-wheel-the/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [Nothing is hopeless that is right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/nothing-is-hopeless-that-is-right/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/it-has-always-been-thought-perfectly-womanly-to-be-a-scrub-woman-in/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hopeand resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/it-is-cruel-for-you-to-leave-your-daughter-so-full-of-hopeand-resolve/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/let-me-tell-you-what-i-think-of-bicycling-i-think-it-has-done-more-to/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/the-only-question-left-to-be-settled-now-is-are-women-persons/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [“I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/i-was-born-a-heretic-i-always-distrusted-people-who-know-so-much/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/many-abolitionists-have-yet-to-learn-the-abc-of-woman-s-rights/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/to-no-form-of-religion-is-woman-indebted-for-one-impulse-of-freedom/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/it-was-we-the-people-not-we-the-white-male-citizens-nor-yet-we-the/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/i-shall-never-pay-a-dollar-of-your-unjust-penalty-all-the-stock-in/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/whichever-way-i-turn-whatever-phase-of-social-life-presents-itself/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/oh-if-i-could-but-live-another-century-and-see-the-fruition-of-all/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/to-be-wedded-to-an-idea-may-be-after-all-the-holiest-and-happiest-of/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

> [For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/for-twelve-successive-congresses-we-have-appeared-before-committees/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

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