Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are… — 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
The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with… — 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
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
[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see… — 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
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down… — 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
I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as… — 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