More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Failure is impossible.
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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.
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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.
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.