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Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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

– Susan B. Anthony

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

– Susan B. Anthony

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

– Susan B. Anthony

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.

– Susan B. Anthony

I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.

– Susan B. Anthony

I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

– Susan B. Anthony

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.

– Susan B. Anthony

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.

– Susan B. Anthony

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.

– Susan B. Anthony

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

– Susan B. Anthony

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

– Susan B. Anthony

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

– Susan B. Anthony

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

– Susan B. Anthony

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

– Susan B. Anthony

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

– Susan B. Anthony

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.

– Susan B. Anthony

Failure is impossible.

– Susan B. Anthony

Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.

– Susan B. Anthony

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.

– Susan B. Anthony

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.

– Susan B. Anthony

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.

– Susan B. Anthony

For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.

– Susan B. Anthony

It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.

– Susan B. Anthony

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

– Susan B. Anthony

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

– Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations… can never effect a reform.

– Susan B. Anthony

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry.

– Susan B. Anthony

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.

– Susan B. Anthony

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

– Susan B. Anthony

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.

– Susan B. Anthony

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