Susan B. Anthony Quotes
Top 68 wise famous quotes and sayings by Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Susan B. Anthony on Wise Famous Quotes.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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.
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth
Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody
The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making ...
Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!
I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder ... We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.
I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.