Susan B. Anthony Quotes

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

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.

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

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.

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, no... -Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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This quote highlights the significance of suffrage (the right to vote) as a crucial and central right in democratic societies. It implies that suffrage plays a critical role in empowering citizens and shaping societal decisions. It reflects on the importance of the right to vote in democracies.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

Failure is impossible.

It 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.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

Independence is happiness.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

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.

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.

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

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.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for t... -Susan B. Anthony

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

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.

There never will be complete equality until women ... -Susan B. Anthony

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

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This quote emphasizes the importance of organizing, advocating, and educating as a call to action or rallying cry. It implies that these actions are necessary in the pursuit of a specific cause or movement.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as... -Susan B. Anthony

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

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This quote draws a parallel between women and dogs baying at the moon, emphasizing the frustration and futility felt by women who are unable to participate fully in the political process due to their lack of voting rights. It implies a call for gender equality and the recognition of women's rights as essential for effective participation in society and governance.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their ... -Susan B. Anthony

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

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This quote advocates for equal rights, suggesting that men should have all their rights and no more, while women should have all their rights and no less.

Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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