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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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
Suffragist
Adams
Massachusetts
Susan Brownell
Susan Brownnell Anthony
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There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.
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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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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.
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The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in 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.
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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 entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.
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Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today they cannot choose.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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 my stand.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
Susan B. Anthony
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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