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: Men & Women
The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
—Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Women, Feminism
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Exercise
Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
—Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Reputation, Reform
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: Desires
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: Woman, Progress
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
Topics: Ideals, Education
Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.
—Susan B. Anthony
Universal manhood suffrage, by establishing an aristocracy of sex, imposes upon the women of this nation a more absolute and cruel despotism than monarchy; in that, woman finds a political master in her father, husband, brother, son. The aristocracies of the old world are based upon birth, wealth, refinement, education, nobility, brave deeds of chivalry; in this nation, on sex alone; exalting brute force above moral power, vice above virtue, ignorance above education, and the son above the mother who bore him.
—Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Men & Women
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
—Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Voting
One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.
—Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Equality
Failure is impossible.
—Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Positive Attitudes, Mindsets, Optimism, Failure
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