Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Susan B. Anthony

Related Quotes:

" 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

" 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

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

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

" The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. "

Susan B. Anthony

" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "

Susan B. Anthony

" Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done. "

Susan B. Anthony

" Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. "

Susan B. Anthony

" Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry. "

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

" What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. "

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 have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less. "

Susan B. Anthony

" No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex. "

Susan B. Anthony

" 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

" 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

" 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

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

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. "

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

" We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property. "

Susan B. Anthony

" 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. "

Susan B. Anthony

" I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. "

Susan B. Anthony

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

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

" Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. "

Susan B. Anthony

" The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth. "

Susan B. Anthony

" 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

" Failure is impossible. "

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony