More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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 expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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.
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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.
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.
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.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
