218 Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

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

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .

It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.

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.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.