Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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  • The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.

    Men  
  • Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

    Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868
  • . . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands 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.

  • Nothing is hopeless that is right.

  • There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Matilda Gage (2017). “HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.1655, e-artnow
  • Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

    Journal, June, 1860.
  • I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

    Men  
    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • 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.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.

    Believe  
  • 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.

    "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony", Book by Ida Husted Harper, Volume 2, 1898.
  • The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • Failure is impossible.

    Susan B. Anthony's remarks at her eighty-sixth birthday celebration, February 15, 1906.
  • Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • 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. (on women's suffrage)

  • What you should say to outsiders is 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.

    Susan B. Anthony, Ida H. Harper (2017). “HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 2: The Trailblazing Documentation on Women’s Enfranchisement in USA, Great Britain & Other Parts of the World (With Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.333, e-artnow
  • 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.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • ... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!

  • Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

    Law  
    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

  • Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

  • I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.

  • In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government.

    "An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting: At the Presidential Election in Nov., 1872" by Susan B. Anthony, Rochester N.Y.: Daily democrat & chronicle book print, 1874.
  • It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

  • I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

    "The Revolution", Women's Suffrage Newspaper, October 8, 1868.
  • I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

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