Susan B. Anthony quote: "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."

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the furt...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a r...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of to...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Suffrage is the pivotal right.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Universal manhood suffrage, by establishing an aristocracy of sex, imposes upon the women of this na...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The true republic
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they w...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coinc...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anythin...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the w...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effec...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

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

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled b...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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 w...
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 ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they a...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protec...
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 anybod...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Independence is happiness.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Failure is impossible.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, ne...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all ri...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organi...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the master...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I w...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Every woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the ol...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the furt...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and re...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the w...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations and social standing, ne...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

This young gentleman is escorting me to jail
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

[T]here never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a sp...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Of course I do. Don't you think your mother is as smart as you are?
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our a...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until th...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coinci...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can b...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, nev...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anythin...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from t...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby...
SUSAN ANTHONY

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they w...
SUSAN ANTHONY

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
SUSAN ANTHONY

The reduced forecast for the handset market is a surprise at this stage of the year...they are pulli...
SUSAN ANTHONY

This young gentleman is escorting me to jail
SUSAN ANTHONY

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the w...
SUSAN ANTHONY

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and re...
SUSAN ANTHONY

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of to...
SUSAN ANTHONY

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a r...
SUSAN ANTHONY

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never...
SUSAN ANTHONY

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING

My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING

I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING

A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa...
SUSAN ORLEAN

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th...
SUSAN POWTER

At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI

Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m...
SUSAN VREELAND

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th...
SUSAN ORLEAN

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder...
SUSAN ORLEAN

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug...
SUSAN HAYWARD

When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of c...
SUSAN MINOT

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, ...
SUSAN ORLEAN

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.
SUSAN VASS

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere...
SUSAN SONTAG

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
SUSAN SONTAG

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write...
SUSAN SONTAG

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we...
SUSAN ERTZ

Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS

My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu...
SUSAN EGAN

One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to p...
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ

I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w...
SUSAN ORLEAN

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t...
SUSAN RICE

I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much ...
SUSAN ESTRICH

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island ...
SUSAN ISAACS

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.

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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.

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