Susan B. Anthony Quotes

American - Activist | February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

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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.

Susan B. Anthony

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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?

Susan B. Anthony

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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

Susan B. Anthony

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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.

Susan B. Anthony

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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

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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.

Susan B. Anthony

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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

Susan B. Anthony

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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?

Susan B. Anthony

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