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" Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry. "

Susan B. Anthony

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" This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses. "

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

" 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. "

" Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. "

" I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. "

" Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. "

" 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. "

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" 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. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men. "

" I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. "

" 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. "

" Independence is happiness. "

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Independence

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

" Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied? "

" Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. "

" She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. "

" The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man. "

" You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry. "

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" To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel. "

" 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. "

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I Am

" We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property. "

" It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one. "

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Poor

" 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. "

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" Failure is impossible. "

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" I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women. "

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