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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.
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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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 stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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.
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.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
