Top 100 Susan B. Anthony Quotes
#1. No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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#2. While one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.
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#4. Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?
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#5. I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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#6. There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.
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#7. I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.
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#8. Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
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#10. Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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#11. I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)
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#12. 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.
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#13. I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!
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#14. We should be miserable but for the consciousness that we have done all in our power to help forward every measure for the freedom and equality of the races and the sexes.
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#15. Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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#16. Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
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#18. Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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#19. What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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#20. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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#21. There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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#22. Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.
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#23. I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely ... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
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#24. 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.
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#25. If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of these college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.
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#26. Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!
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#27. I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder ... We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.
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#28. You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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#29. When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.
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#30. I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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#31. 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.
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#32. It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention your friend's name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, "ladies and gentlemen." It is a lack of good manners.
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#33. 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.
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#34. Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.
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#35. Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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#36. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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#37. There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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#38. Even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!
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#39. Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.
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#40. God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.
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#42. Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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#44. I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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#45. The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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#46. 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.
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#47. Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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#48. We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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#49. Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church
to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.
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#50. Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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#51. 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.
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#52. When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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#53. Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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#54. To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.
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#55. If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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#56. 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.
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#57. Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances ... That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.
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#58. No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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#59. So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.
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#61. The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
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#62. 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.
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#63. Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.
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#64. [Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that day. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see itit is inevitable.
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#65. I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," ... do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.
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#66. I deplore the horrible crime as child murder ... no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed ... but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.
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#68. The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.
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#69. When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!
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#70. 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.
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#71. Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making ...
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#72. A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.
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#73. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.
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#74. I look for the day ... when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.
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#75. 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.
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#76. I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.
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#77. Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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#78. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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#79. 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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#80. There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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#81. Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.
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#83. I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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#84. Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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#86. For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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#87. 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.
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#88. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who ... drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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#89. The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
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#90. It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people andstart them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them.
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#91. 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.
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#92. She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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#93. Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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#94. An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household ... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.
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#95. Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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#96. All we demand are the same rights as men, and slightly more stalls per restroom. And tampon machines. And those little things in the stalls so we can put our used tampons in them. And, okay, just go ahead and make the bathrooms out of tampons.
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#97. There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause
I wish I could name every one
but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!
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#98. The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
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#99. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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#100. 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.
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