More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
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.
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.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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 don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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.
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
