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Better lose me than lose a state.

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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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.
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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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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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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.
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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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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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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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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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