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" 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. "

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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. "

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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

Susan B. Anthony

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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 Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights. "

" Failure is impossible. "

Susan B. Anthony

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

" Suffrage is the pivotal right. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

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