Susan B. Anthony

Quotes

• “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who for...”
• “No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, i...”
• “An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father,...”
• “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world....”
• “When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and ai...”
• “The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organi...”
• “Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones not the birthdays the g...”
• “There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, h...”
• “It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of...”
• “If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to c...”
• “Oh yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It...”
• “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 sens...”
• “I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxi...”
• “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....”
• “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 wa...”
• “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 m...”
• “Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a...”
• “Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.”
• “The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?”
• “Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.”
• “The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.”
• “Every woman should have a purse of her own.”
• “Suffrage is the pivotal right.”
• “Independence is happiness.”
• “Failure is impossible.”