Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hopeand resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
