It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons;… — 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
When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
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
Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people — 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
Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use… — 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