Tag: Susan B. Anthony
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No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.
Susan B. Anthony
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Susan B. Anthony
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
Susan B. Anthony
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
Susan B. Anthony
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Susan B. Anthony
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
Susan B. Anthony
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony
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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 brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. Anthony
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
Susan B. Anthony
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The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.
Susan B. Anthony