Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYGovernments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTo be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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. ANTHONYI do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWe ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYAway with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNo self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYHow shall we ever make the world intelligent?
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhat an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
SUSAN B. ANTHONYA republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSooner 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. ANTHONYBeing persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhen a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYFor a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY