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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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.
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
