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" 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. "

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" I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. "

Susan B. Anthony

God

Recognition

Women

" Suffrage is the pivotal right. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" Independence is happiness. "

Susan B. Anthony

Happiness

Independence

" 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. "

Susan B. Anthony

I Am

" What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor. "

" It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot. "

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

" Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. "

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

Susan B. Anthony

Work

Poor

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

" I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less. "

Susan B. Anthony

Rights

Nothing

" I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows. "

" 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. "

" For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man. "

" 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. "

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

Susan B. Anthony

Help

Law

" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "

" If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves. "

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

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

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