Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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

Woman, Stand, Taught

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Independence is happiness.
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

God, Wants, Distrust

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

Happy, Girl, Living

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

Money, Children, Rich

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Susan B. Anthony

Good, Woman, Enough

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

Women, Men, Evil

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony

Women, Men, Nothing

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

Work, Women, Live

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

Women, Men, Revolution

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
Susan B. Anthony

War, Cry, Organize

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Susan B. Anthony

God, Wants, Distrust

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
Susan B. Anthony

Woman, Human, Destiny

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony

Women, Men, Nothing

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
Susan B. Anthony

Effect, Careful, Reform

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

Power, Help, Older

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Susan B. Anthony

Work, Together, Union

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
Susan B. Anthony

Work, Long, Die

Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony

History, Failure, Impossible

Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Susan B. Anthony

Suffrage, Pivotal

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
Susan B. Anthony

Women, Vote, Moon

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

Today, Woman, Different

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

Trust, Help, Woman

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

Women, God, Old

This 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. Anthony

Different, Rather, Used

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 15, 1820

Died: March 13, 1906

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