Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

Failure is impossible.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

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

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.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

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.

Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.

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.

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

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

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