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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

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
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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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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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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Failure is impossible.
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To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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... 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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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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Forget conventionalisms forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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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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... 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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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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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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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