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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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.
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.
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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.
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.
