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• 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.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Prayer, Men, Religion

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• 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.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Women, People, History

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Love, Marriage, Ideas

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• 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.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Sex

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• 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.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Courage, Peace, Integrity

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• 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

  Resistance, Recognition, Revolutionary

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Worst Enemy, Enemy, Pulpit

  "I'm not praying" by Cath Elliott, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2008.

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• Failure is impossible.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Failure, Positive Attitude, History

  Susan B. Anthony's remarks at her eighty-sixth birthday celebration, February 15, 1906.

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• If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Education, Children, School

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Independence is happiness.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Happiness, Independence

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Inspiration, People

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Gratitude, Jobs, Grateful

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Change, Trying, Discontent

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Intellectual, Moral, Absurd

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• I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Rights, Motto

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• 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

  Inspiring, Girl, Strong Women

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• The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Religious, Atheist, Diversity

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Wall, Law, Political

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• Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

  Susan B. Anthony

  Teacher, Men, Doctors

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  God, Mother, Father

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• Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Girl, Equal Pay, Diversity

  The Revolution, 8 Oct. 1869

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• I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Sex, Struggle, Believe

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• Every woman should have a purse of her own.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Witty, Should Have, Purses

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• There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.

  Susan B. Anthony

  War, Slavery, Empires

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• Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong, Work, Justice

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