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.

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.

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.

Independence is happiness.

I pray every single moment of my life not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

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.

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

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