Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

About Susan B. Anthony:

Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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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.

Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Susan B. Anthony

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

Susan B. Anthony

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

Susan B. Anthony

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Susan B. Anthony

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Susan B. Anthony

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

Susan B. Anthony

...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Susan B. Anthony

When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be...

Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and pri...

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Susan B. Anthony

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

Susan B. Anthony

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 pict...

Susan B. Anthony

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 ...

Susan B. Anthony

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Susan B. Anthony

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Susan B. Anthony

Author Bio

  • NameSusan B. Anthony
  • DescriptionAmerican women's rights activist
  • BornFebruary 15, 1820
  • DiedMarch 13, 1906
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSuffrage Activist (female); Women's Rights Activist
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame