Looking for the best and inspirational Susan B. Anthony quotes?
Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820 in Massachusetts and died in 1906. She was a leading figure of the women’s rights movement of the 1800s, and during her lifetime, she fought for many gender equality policies, including getting women the right to vote.
She is often cited as one of the most influential women in American history. Her determination and ability to fight for what she believed in led to many changes within American society, such as giving women the right to vote, passing laws giving equal rights to married women, and legalizing abortion.
She was also bravely outspoken about her beliefs, even when it came to personal risk. Throughout her life, she was arrested multiple times for speaking out against slavery during slave auctions or against voting laws that would disallow. She is well known to most Americans today.
Check out her inspiring quotes on gender equality which will describe how she feels about the feminist movement.
50 Greatest Susan B. Anthony Quotes
“The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.”
“The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.”
“I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I cannot, I want to go.”
“Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!”
“Our job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make them ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.”
“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
“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.”
“Independence is happiness.”
“The true republic: men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”
“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 distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”
“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man’s housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poor she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealthy, she became a pet and a doll.”
“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.”
“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”
“Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.”
“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 his equal, not his slave.”
“Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.”
“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.”
“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.”
“Failure is impossible”
“Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .”
“We need to see whether this is a one-off or more serious.”
“Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.”
“One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.”
“I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”
“There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.”
“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.”
“I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.”
“We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights.”
“Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”
“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.”
“The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self… Stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength… She will proclaim the “glad tidings of good news” to all women, that woman equally with man was made for her own individual happiness, to develop… every talent given to her by God, in the great work of life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.”
“Failure is impossible.”
“There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women. I hope the twentieth century will see the triumph of our cause.”
“What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.”
“I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.”
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
“There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.”
“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.”
“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.”
