More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
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.
Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
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.
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.
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.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
