Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYLiberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWoman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYOur Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThose who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYAway with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTo be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIf a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhy should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
SUSAN B. ANTHONYForget 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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTrust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY