More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
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.
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.
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.
Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
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.
