More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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.
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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.
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 don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
