"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve……" — Susan B. Anthony
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences..."
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Susan B. Anthony
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102 Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect…
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides…
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as…
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would…
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more.…
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball…
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married…
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is…
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Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men…
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
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