Susan B. Anthony

Quotes

• “Does any lawyer doubt my statement of the legal status of married women? I will remind him of the fact that the old comm...”
• “We have followed her leadership until we stand upon the mount of vision where she today leaves us. The promised land lie...”
• “In the 1880's and '90's Susan B. Anthony's influence on the women of the country-and on the men, too-was still strong. S...”
• “At the close of my address a young man in the audience, whom we afterward learned was a southerner, sneeringly asked, "I...”
• “But, yesterday, the same man-made forms of law, declared it a crime punishable with $1,000 fine and six months' imprison...”
• “We colored women own [sic] her a two-fold debt of gratitude. Her persecutions were greater than those of Garrison or Phi...”
• “Miss Anthony gave me rather the impression of a woman who was eager to hear all sides of any question, and that I am sur...”
• “No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully gu...”
• “And is all this tyranny any less humiliating and degrading to women, under our democratic republic government to-day, th...”
• “All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!...Susan had an earnes...”
• “Struggle brought about the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited the government from denying women the ri...”
• “The Anthony Interview was an art form. Sometimes she paced the floor and dictated rapidly; sometimes she made a grand en...”
• “She knew that where freedom is there is the center of power. In it she saw potentially all that humanity might attain wh...”
• “On her $100 fine, as quoted in An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal V...”
• “Is there a man who will not agree with me, that to talk of "freedom without the ballot" is mockery, is slavery, to the w...”
• “Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possib...”
• “A defense of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman's Bible at a meeting of the National-America...”
• “Statement of Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1856), partially quoted in The Right to Vote (2001) by Claudia Isler, p...”
• “I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk to women who are comfortably circumstanced, to those who have good father...”
• “Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a ...”
• “She did not gain the little bit of freedom for herself, but there is scarcely a civilized land, not even our own, in whi...”
• “The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries Duri...”
• “Susan B. Anthony had several significant relationships with Afro-American women, including Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells...”
• “Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the b...”
• “Unsourced variants: Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God, and I shall never pay a penny of this unjust claim. Resis...”
• “Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Nation, and Sojourner Truth were not evolutionaries, they were revolutionaries, just as many of...”
• “I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; ma...”
• “Speaking on March 24, 1896, as quoted in "Suffragists Hold a Parlor Meeting; Mrs. Austin Perry Opens Her Home; A Talk by...”
• “I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have n...”
• “Though women, as a class, are much less addicted to drunkenness and licentiousness than men, it is universally conceded ...”
• “Even, under such circumstances, a commoner of England, tried before a jury of Lords, would have far less cause to compla...”
• “I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and pr...”
• “Elizabeth Cady Stanton "Susan B. Anthony" from Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distingu...”
• “On the United States Declaration of Independence in her "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" spee...”
• “Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely...”
• “The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally wi...”
• “I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors o...”
• “The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to...”
• “I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.”
• “Nellie Bly, 1896 article in Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words edited by Lynn Sherr (1995)”
• “The fact is women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize.”
• “As quoted in Woman: Her Position, Influence and Achievement Throughout the Civilized World (1900) p. 415”
• “An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting] (1874)”
• “Variant: Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God; I shall never pay a penny of this unjust claim.”
• “The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2), by Ida Husted Harper, from Project Gutenberg”
• “Eugene Debs Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words edited by Lynn Sherr (1995)”
• “April 1969 article in Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2021)”
• “Account of Matilda Joslyn Gage (June 20, 1873) to Kansas Leavenworth Times (July 3, 1873)”
• “Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”
• “Account of Matilda Joslyn Gage (20 June 1873) to Kansas Leavenworth Times (July 3, 1873)”