More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
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.
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 worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.
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.
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.
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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 expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
