Justice Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

9 Justice quotes by Susan B. Anthony

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For a brief, powerful glimpse of a pioneering suffragist’s view on fairness, these nine statements from Susan B. Anthony convey her determined, principled stance.

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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human…

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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…

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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United…

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For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our…

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It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings…

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To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every…

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We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to…

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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

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Nothing is hopeless that is right.

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It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is…

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It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hopeand resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so…

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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.…

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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

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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.”

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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

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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…

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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…

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Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse…

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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…

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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

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