Religion Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

9 Religion quotes by Susan B. Anthony

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Susan B. Anthony’s remarks on religion intersect with her advocacy, delivering clear, purposeful thoughts. These nine short quotes highlight how she linked belief with reform.

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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…

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I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

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

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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

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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…

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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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The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset…

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A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed…

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It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be…

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

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