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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.
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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
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.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.
