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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the w...

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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the ol...

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Oh yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but t...

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coinci...

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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 furthe...

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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to...

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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they a...

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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, nev...

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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be y...

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The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coinc...

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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybod...

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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.

Independence is happiness.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the master...

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I pray every single moment of my life not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women t...

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Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing nev...

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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they w...

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Every woman should have a purse of her own.

...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution tha...

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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to bru...

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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones not ...

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Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anythin...

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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so ...

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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this gre...

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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from t...

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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several st...

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An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex...

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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Failure is impossible.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the furt...

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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved ...

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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are noth...

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Susan B. Anthony

Women's rights activist

Born: 1820-02-15

Died: 1906-03-13

Susan Brownell Anthony (15 February 1820 – 13 March 1906) was an American civil rights leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Women's suffrage in the United States.More