More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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.
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.
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.
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
