56 result(s) for Susan B. Anthony Quotes.
"With a single command I could have picked up every one of you and put you out of the room. You haven't got the power to make one of me leave."
"The woman of today is not a kind of creature who is to be put on a stand and weighed against a man of any mold."
"I can't say that I think you are very generous to the Ladies, for whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to Men, Emancipate all Men's rights, and leave all the Women behind still in bondage."
"Suffrage is the pivotal right!"
"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."
"The fact is, woman was whole in man, and man whole in woman, either, the sex without the other is half; neither the full measure of being."
"I think if half the members of the different churches were women, the handful of actual workers in these same churches would frighten the minority into liberality in less than no time."
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"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."
"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
"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."
"I have a promise to keep to my heart and I will keep it true – to be brave, to be honest, to be just, and to be ready to die for the truth, as I have said I will."
"The true aim of labor is not alone for the profit of the capitalist, not for the greed of the landlord, not for the greed of the employer, but for the common good of the working class, and for the general welfare of society."
"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
"Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!"
"I declare I am and of right ought to be a human being."
"I will tell you what to do to bring about a reform whenever needed: you must do all the things you think you cannot do."
"There is not a man of fortune in the United States who would dare to write his autobiography."
"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."
"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself."
"Think of it! We are half the human family. Women are a unit."
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"I am perfectly willing to see women disfranchised, but I want them to know the truth and to understand the circumstances."
"The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not."
"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."
"Our union was founded on liberty, and slavery was an exception and an encumbrance. We aim to restore our union, to make liberty the rule, slavery the exception, and to abolish all encumbrances."
"Failure is not an option. As a result, neither is success."
"The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires."
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because it always coincides with their own desires."
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform."
"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."
"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."
"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less!"
"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."
"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."
"The day of our ultimate triumph is at hand."
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"Our job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make them ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody."
"Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less."
"The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do."
"Independence is happiness."
"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry."
"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."
"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform."
"I can't say that the college-bred woman is the safest and most timely woman to be intrusted with the ballot."
"I shall never while I live trust a woman who refuses to help other women."
"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."
"Suffrage is the pivotal right."
"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."
"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."
"Here is how to do something which good men have tried for a hundred years and have never succeeded."
"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."
"Failure is impossible."
"If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of 15,000 men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung."
"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."
"Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work."
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