For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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. ANTHONYMany abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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. ANTHONYI think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYYou would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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. ANTHONYThis 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. ANTHONYI 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. ANTHONYShe who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNo self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYCautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWe 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. 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 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