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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.
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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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.
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.
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.
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.
