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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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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.
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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 expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
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Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency - So get money - get wealth
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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