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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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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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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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If I could only live another century!
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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Failure is impossible.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
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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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Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency - So get money - get wealth
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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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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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I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody
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