Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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• Independence is happiness.
• I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take…
• I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
• I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth.…
• If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their…
• Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
• I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
• The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am…
• 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…
• Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be…
• Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
• Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
• Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
• Failure is impossible.
• I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the…
• Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
• Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
• Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
• This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

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