Words matter. These are the best Susan B. Anthony Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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.
Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
White men have always controlled their wives’ wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
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.
An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household… carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.
The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
Independence is happiness.
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
Failure is impossible.
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.
There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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 was to the slaves of brutal masters.
For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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.
Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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.
The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
