1820-1906
American reformer, suffragist
Susan B. Anthony quotes:
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.
The fact is women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread if dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
What you should say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.
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 out bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Failure is impossible.
Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood.
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Independence is happiness.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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.
Why Should We Not Pray to Our Mother Who Art in Heaven, As Well As to Our Father?
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.
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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.
When I was young,if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she shafes under a government that tolerates it.
I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.
How can you not be all on fire? ... I really believe I shall explode if some of you young women don't wake up --and raise your voice in protest against the impending crime of this nation upon the new islands it has clutched from other folks. Do come into the living present and work to save us from any more barbaric male governments.
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.
For an state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in disenfranchisement of an entire half of the people is to pass a bill of attainder, or an ex post facto law, of the land.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens, not yet we, the male citizen; but we, the whole people, who form the Union.
. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husband and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.
Let me tell you what I thinks about bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world, I stand and rejoice every time I see a womnan ride by on a wheel.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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