Better lose me than lose a state.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
-
-
It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
If I could only live another century!
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Trust 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 -
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
It 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. ANTHONY -
It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY