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If I could only live another century!

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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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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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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It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
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It was we, the people not we, the white male citizens nor yet we, the male citizens but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less
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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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... 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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When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
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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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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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