“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
Susan B. Anthony
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“… the day will come when man will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside but in the councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union, between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”
Susan B. Anthony
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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 girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!”
Susan B. Anthony
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“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 was to the slaves of brutal masters.”
Susan B. Anthony
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“… in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually but all of my sex are, by your honor’s verdict, doomed to political subjection under this so-called republican form of government.”
Susan B. Anthony
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Government
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“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
Susan B. Anthony
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Government
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“… even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!”
Susan B. Anthony
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conscience
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“Since I know nothing of the merits of poetry, I am not able to pass any opinion upon this, but I can see that “reap” and “deep,” “prayers” and “bears,” “ark” and “dark,” “true” and “grew” do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.”
Susan B. Anthony
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“A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people. While we have class and sectarian schools the parties supporting them will not give their fullest aid toward building up the public school system. If all of the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money and energies on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. To be a success a republic must have a homogeneous people, and to do this it must have homogeneous schools…. I grow more and more opposed to [sectarian schools].”
Susan B. Anthony
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“… a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself cannot stand upon it.”
Susan B. Anthony
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“I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.”
Susan B. Anthony
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“… when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everyone will think it was always so, just exactlyas many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses were always hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon to-day has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”
Susan B. Anthony
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“I feel more charity for a Mormon who has been taught from his birth that it is not only his right but his duty to God to enter into plural marriages, and that the man who has the greatest number of wives stands highest in God’s favor, than I do for the man who has been taught from his cradle that the unpardonable sin is the desecration of womanhood; whose religious training and the moral code of civilization in which he is reared make it a crime to violate the Seventh Commandment and the established law of monogamy. Yet, judging from the testimony we see all about us–our … lying-in and foundling hospitals and our fallen womanhood–the married or single man who lives a pure life is rare.”
Susan B. Anthony
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Morality
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“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. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.”
Susan B. Anthony
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“Suffrage is the pivotal right.”
Susan B. Anthony
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“The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”
Susan B. Anthony
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Feminism
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“Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”
Susan B. Anthony
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Feminism
