Susan B. Anthony Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Religion

• 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

  Topics in God, Spirituality

  Tags in People

• The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in People, Careful

• 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

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Help, Law

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Wives

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Moon

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Receptionist

• 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

  Topics in Power

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Men, Rights

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Woman

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Girl, Equal

• Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Invention, Modern

• Suffrage is the pivotal right. Suffrage is the pivotal right.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

• I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evil, Divorce

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Able, Earn

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Declare

Susan B. Anthony (31)

Birth:	15th February, 1820
Death:	13th March, 1906
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Lawyer, Suffragist

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