Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period… single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.