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We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.
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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.
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.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Failure is impossible.
