Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

— Susan B. Anthony

Happiness

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

Independence is happiness.

— Susan B. Anthony

Happiness

Failure is impossible.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

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

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

— Susan B. Anthony

Life

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

— Susan B. Anthony

Life

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

— Susan B. Anthony

Success

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

— Susan B. Anthony

Life

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

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

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

— Susan B. Anthony

Success

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

— Susan B. Anthony

Wisdom