Susan B. Anthony

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

— Susan B. Anthony

Nothing is hopeless that is right.

— Susan B. Anthony

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

It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hopeand resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already…

— Susan B. Anthony

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in…

— Susan B. Anthony

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

— Susan B. Anthony

“I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their…

— Susan B. Anthony

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

— Susan B. Anthony

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

— 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,…

— Susan B. Anthony

I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred…

— Susan B. Anthony

Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from…

— 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…

— Susan B. Anthony

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

— Susan B. Anthony

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

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

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

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

— Susan B. Anthony

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers,…

— Susan B. Anthony

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

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a…

— Susan B. Anthony

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

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

— Susan B. Anthony

... we should be miserable but for the consciousness that we have done all in our power to help forward every measure…

— Susan B. Anthony

Independence is happiness.

— Susan B. Anthony