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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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.
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.
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.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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.
