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

Susan B. Anthony

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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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 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "

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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. "

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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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

Susan B. Anthony

" 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. "

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

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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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