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Susan B. Anthony5 quotes
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. — Susan B. Anthony · 1868When two people take each other on terms of perfect equality, without the desire of one to control the other, to make the other subservient, it is a beautiful thing. It is the truest and highest state of life. — Susan B. Anthony · 1896It 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 · 1872It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens, but we, the whole people, who formed this 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 · 1873Join the union, girls, and together say, "Equal Pay for Equal Work!" — Susan B. Anthony · 1869Bella Abzug1 quote
We don't want so much to see a female Einstein become an assistant professor. We want a woman schlemiel to get promoted as quickly as a male schlemiel. — Bella Abzug · 1977Elizabeth Cady Stanton1 quote
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1848John Stuart Mill1 quote
The moral regeneration of mankind will only really commence, when the most fundamental of the social relations is placed under the rule of equal justice, and when human beings learn to cultivate their strongest sympathy with an equal in rights and in cultivation. — John Stuart Mill · 1869Lucretia Mott1 quote
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life... Then in the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott · 1849Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.1 quote
It will need more than the Nineteenth Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. · 1923Polly Toynbee1 quote
Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking. — Polly Toynbee · 1987Ruth Bader Ginsburg1 quote
Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg · 2009Simone de Beauvoir1 quote
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949