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
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
– Susan B. Anthony
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
– Susan B. Anthony
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
– Susan B. Anthony
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
– Susan B. Anthony
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
– Susan B. Anthony
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
– Susan B. Anthony
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
– Susan B. Anthony
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
– Susan B. Anthony
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
– Susan B. Anthony
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
– Susan B. Anthony
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
– Susan B. Anthony
Independence is happiness.
– Susan B. Anthony
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
– 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
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.