Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

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

The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

Failure is impossible.

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.

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.

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

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

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

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

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.

...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

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

Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.