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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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
Susan Brownell
Susan Brownnell Anthony
Susan Anthony
Pulpit
Worst
Enemy
Women
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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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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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Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
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I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.
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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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