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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. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
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Susan B. Anthony
Age: 86 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 15
Died: 1906
Died: March 13
Abolitionist
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Adams
Massachusetts
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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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Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.
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Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .
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Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency - So get money - get wealth
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If I could only live another century!
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... we should be miserable but for the consciousness that we have done all in our power to help forward every measure for the freedom and equality of the races and the sexes.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly' but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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