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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.
Susan B. Anthony
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Susan B. Anthony
Age: 86 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 15
Died: 1906
Died: March 13
Abolitionist
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Human Rights Activist
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Adams
Massachusetts
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Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.
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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.
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... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year once a month or once a week is not enough.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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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Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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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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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
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The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
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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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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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