Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
-
-
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
I 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. ANTHONY -
The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
The 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. ANTHONY -
For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Better lose me than lose a state.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
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.
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 -
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY