Years Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

8 Years quotes by Susan B. Anthony

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Susan B. Anthony’s eight brief statements on years echo the steadfast spirit of a reformer. Her words, grounded in history, offer a concise, powerful reminder of how perseverance and time intertwine in the fight for equality.

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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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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they…

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... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one…

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I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a…

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[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their association she had…

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I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a…

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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…

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I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon,…

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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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