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" 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? "

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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 anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. "

Susan B. Anthony

Independence

Think

Sweet

" The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth. "

" Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. "

Susan B. Anthony

Long

Die

" 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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit. "

" Failure is impossible. "

Susan B. Anthony

Impossible

Failure

" White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages. "

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

" 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. "

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

Susan B. Anthony

Work

Poor

" I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. "