Independence is happiness.
From Susan B. Anthony
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
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.
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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.
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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.
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