Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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. ANTHONYThe 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. 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. ANTHONYFor a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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. ANTHONYWhat 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. 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. ANTHONYNothing is hopeless that is right.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYEvery 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. 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. 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. ANTHONYTo no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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. ANTHONYAway with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY