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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
Failure is impossible.
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.
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.
