More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
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.
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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 grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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.
