The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependence is happiness.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
-
-
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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 -
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Being 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. ANTHONY -
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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 -
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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 -
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 -
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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