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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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.
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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.
No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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.
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
