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I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

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
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Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.
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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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It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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 done.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.
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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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If I could only live another century!
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... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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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!
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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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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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Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
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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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Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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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 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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