218 Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

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.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

... 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.

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.

Failure is impossible.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

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.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.