Quotes from Susan B. Anthony

Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

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.

Failure is impossible.

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.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

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

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one.

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.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

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.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

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

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.