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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."
Susan B. Anthony"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."
Susan B. Anthony"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."
Susan B. Anthony"Independence is happiness."
Susan B. Anthony"I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet."
Susan B. Anthony"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."
Susan B. Anthony"Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it."
Susan B. Anthony"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
Susan B. Anthony"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men."
Susan B. Anthony"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry."
Susan B. Anthony"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."
Susan B. Anthony"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman."
Susan B. Anthony"Suffrage is the pivotal right."
Susan B. Anthony"No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend."
Susan B. Anthony