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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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
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Adams
Massachusetts
Susan Brownell
Susan Brownnell Anthony
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So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.
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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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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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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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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Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
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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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Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency - So get money - get wealth
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Failure is impossible.
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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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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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... 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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