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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. "

Susan B. Anthony

Blessings

Women

White

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

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

Susan B. Anthony

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Die

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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

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