Susan B. Anthony

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

— Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

— Susan B. Anthony

It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

— Susan B. Anthony

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

— Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

— Susan B. Anthony

Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

— Susan B. Anthony

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

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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

— Susan B. Anthony

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every…

— Susan B. Anthony

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from…

— Susan B. Anthony

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance…

— Susan B. Anthony

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at…

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There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women…

— Susan B. Anthony

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with…

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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United…

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Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

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We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each…

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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound…

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Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster…

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It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention…

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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

... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry…

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Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent,…

— Susan B. Anthony

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

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

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

... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of…

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In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil…

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“It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine… how…

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There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing…

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It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof…

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

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

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

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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

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It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one.

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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

— Susan B. Anthony

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

— Susan B. Anthony