Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

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

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

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.

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

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

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

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Better lose me than lose a state.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

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.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

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

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

If I could only live another century!

Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.

... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

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

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

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

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

Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.

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.