Susan B. Anthony Quotes - Page 2

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Independence is happiness.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

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.

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.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

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.

To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

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

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

Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

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.

I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.