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Susan B. Anthony

Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.

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So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.

Down, Levels, Long, Twenties, Vote, Women

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

Equal, Free, Government, People, Teaching

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

Daily, Men, Think, Thinking, Woman, Writing

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

Birthday, Life, Love, Measured, Ones

. . . even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!

Art, Hands, Hateful, Influence, Keen, Thinking

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

Change, Discontent, Make, Things, Trying

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

Grateful, Gratitude, Job, Jobs, Women

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.

Depend, Inspirational, Sad, Stand, Take, Women

Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.

Came, Cared, Daughter, Editors, Fashion, Michigan

It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies. " You mention your friend's name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, "ladies and gentlemen. " It is a lack of good manners.

Gentleman, Gentlemen, Good Man, Lady, Names, Rebuking

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

Dollars, National, Pay, Salary, Wages

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Inspiring, Daughter, Strong Women, Ask, Political, Belong

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Noble, People, Progressive, Women

Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

Father, God, Heaven, Mother, Pray

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.

Different, Rose, Roses, Things, Years

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

Destiny, Hands, Human, Lying, Woman

Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

Approval, Conscience, Place, Thinking, Words, World

Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.

Bring, Caring, Children, Mother, State, Unborn

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

Arms, Cutting, Demand, Negro, Right, Work

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

Men, Moment, Prayer, Religion, Work

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