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

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. "

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

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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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. "

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

" Independence is happiness. "

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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. "

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

" 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. "

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" Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings? "

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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. "

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

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