Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

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

Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Nothing is hopeless that is right.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

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

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

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

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

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

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

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

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

Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

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.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

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.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

Failure is impossible.