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Susan B. Anthony
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“The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self, — do her own individual work — 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 power of her three fold-nature, to use, worthily every talent given to her by God, in the great work of life.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1856), partially quoted in The Right to Vote (2001) by Claudia Isler, p. 50, and in Perfecting the Family : Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America (1997) by …
“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1857 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on No Union with Slaveholders (1857)
“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.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform (1860)
“Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal (June 1860)
“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 (1820–1906) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Revolution, Women's Suffrage Newspaper (8 October 1868)
“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Revolution (18 March 1869)
“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in San Francisco (July 1871)
“I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Autumn 1872)
“Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Woman's Rights to the Suffrage Speech (1873)
“Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], 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 (1820–1906) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the United States Declaration of Independence in her "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" speech before her trial for voting (1873)
“Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on Social Purity (Spring 1875)
“Though women, as a class, are much less addicted to drunkenness and licentiousness than men, it is universally conceded that they are by far the greater sufferers from these evils.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Regarding Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Woman's Tribune (22 February 1890)
“I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk to women who are comfortably circumstanced, to those who have good fathers, kind brothers and have married the best of men, who do not believe that husband and wife are one and he is the one.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking on March 24, 1896, as quoted in "Suffragists Hold a Parlor Meeting; Mrs. Austin Perry Opens Her Home; A Talk by Miss Anthony," San Francisco Chronicle (March 25, 1896), p. 8
“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.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years, Volume 2 (1 January 1898) by Ida Husted Harper, published by Bowen-Merrill Company
“The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A defense of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman's Bible at a meeting of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association 1896 Convention, The History of Woman Suffrage (Hollenbeck Press, Indi…
“The fact is women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
“I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Account of Matilda Joslyn Gage (20 June 1873) to Kansas Leavenworth Times (July 3, 1873)
“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.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Account of Matilda Joslyn Gage (June 20, 1873) to Kansas Leavenworth Times (July 3, 1873)
“I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Account of Matilda Joslyn Gage (June 20, 1873) to Kansas Leavenworth Times (July 3, 1873)
“Even, under such circumstances, a commoner of England, tried before a jury of Lords, would have far less cause to complain than should I, a woman, tried before a jury of men.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting] (1874)
“But, yesterday, the same man-made forms of law, declared it a crime punishable with $1,000 fine and six months' imprisonment, for you, or me, or any of us, to give a cup of cold water, a crust of bread, or a night's shelter to a panting fugitive as he was tracking his way to Canada. And every man or woman in whose veins coursed a drop of human sympathy violated that wicked law, reckless of consequences, and was justified in so doing.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting] (1874)
“Does any lawyer doubt my statement of the legal status of married women? I will remind him of the fact that the old common law of England prevails in every state in this Union except where the legislature has enacted special laws annulling it. And I am ashamed that not one state has yet blotted from its statute books the old common law of marriage, by which Blackstone, summed up in the fewest words possible, declared that “The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband!!”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And is all this tyranny any less humiliating and degrading to women, under our democratic republic government to-day, than it was to men, under their aristocratic, monarchical government a hundred years ago? There is not an utterance of Old John Adams, John Hancock, or Patrick Henry but finds a living response in the soul of every intelligent, patriotic woman of the nation.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is there a man who will not agree with me, that to talk of “freedom without the ballot” is mockery, is slavery, to the women of this republic, precisely as New England’s orator, Wendell Phillips, at the close of the late war declared it to be to the newly emancipated black men?”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We no longer petition Legislature or Congress to give off the right to vote, but appeal to women everywhere to exercise their too long neglected "citizen's right" … 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. The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution the constitutions of the several states … propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights. … One-half of the people of this Nation today is utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write a new and just one. The women, dissatisfied as they are with this form of government, that enforces taxation without representation — that compels them to obey laws to which they have never given their consent — that imprisons and hangs them without a trial by a jury of their peers — that robs them, in marriage of the custody of their own persons, wages, and children—are this half of the people left wholly at the mercy of the other half.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address given in towns of Ontario county, prior to her trial, quoted in "An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge of illegal voting, at the presidential election in Nov. 1872, and on…
“The time has come when women should organize a stock company and run a newspaper on their own basis. When woman has a newspapers which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely writer her own thoughts...We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as a woman thinks a man wants her to think and write. As it is now, the men who control the finances control the paper. As long as we occupy our present position we are mentally and morally in the power of the men who engineer the finances. Horace Greely once said that women ought not to expect the same pay for work that men received. He advised women to go down into New Jersey, buy a parcel of ground, and go to raising strawberries. Then when they came up to New York with their strawberries the men wouldn’t dare to offer them half price for their produce. I say, my journalistic sisters, that it is high time we were raising our own strawberries on our own land.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in the Chicago Daily Tribune, (May 24, 1893).
“On bicycling: "I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent. The moment she takes her seat, she knows she can't get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammelled womanhood." On teaching: "In those days, we did not know any other way to control children. We believed in the goodness of not sparing the rod. As I got older, I abolished whipping. If I couldn't manage a child, I thought it my ignorance, my lack of ability, as a teacher. I always felt less the woman when I struck a blow." "I must have an audience to inspire me ... to save my life, I couldn't write a speech". "It all rose out of the men refusing to let me speak" at a temperance meeting. "Women were the bond slaves of men". "I know God never made a woman to be bossed by a man". "The law says that only idiots, lunatics and criminals shall be denied the right to vote. So you see with whom all women are classed." "When two people take each other on terms of perfect equality, without the desire of one to control the other to make the other subservient, it is a beautiful thing. It is the truest and highest state of life." "I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper and drudge. ... Once men were afraid of women with ideas and a desire to vote. Today, our best suffragists are sought in marriage by the best class of men.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Nellie Bly, New York World (February 2, 1896), p. 10.
“I never saw that great woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, but I l have read her eloquent and unanswerable arguments in behalf of the liberty of womankind. I have met and known most of the progressive women who came after her — Lucretia Mott, the Grimké sisters, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone — a long galaxy of great women. I have heard them speak, saying in only slightly different phrases exactly what I heard these newer advocates of the cause say at these meetings. Those older women have gone on and most of those who work with me in the early years have gone. I am here for a little time only and then my place will be filled as theirs was filled. The fight must not cease; you must see that it does not stop. There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause — I wish I could name every one — but with such women consecrating their lives, failure is impossible!”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: speech February 15, 1906 — 38th Annual Convention, National American Woman Suffrage Association, Baltimore MD
“May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper — The Revolution — four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government; and I shall work on with might and main to pay every dollar of that honest debt, but not a penny shall go to this unjust claim. And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her $100 fine, as quoted in An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting] (1874) The "old revolutionary maxim" Anthony uses here has been variously attributed to Will…
“There is not the slightest permission for the states to discriminate against the right of any class of citizens to vote. Surely to regulate cannot be to annihilate! Nor to qualify, to wholly deprive. And this principle every republican said amen, when applied to black men by Senator Sumner in his great speeches for “Equal rights to all,” from 1865 to 1869; and when, in 1871, I asked the Senator to declare the power of the United States Constitution to protect women in their right to vote, as he had done for black men, he handed me a copy of all his speeches during that reconstruction period, and said, "Miss Anthony, put sex where I have “race or color,” and you have here the best and strongest argument I can make for woman. There is not a doubt but women have the constitutional right to vote, and I will never vote for a 16th amendment to guarantee it to them. I voted for both the 14th and 15th under protest. Would never have done it but for the pressing emergency; would have insisted that the power of the original Constitution to protect all citizens in the equal enjoyment of their rights should have been vindicated through the courts. But the newly-freed men had neither the intelligence, wealth, nor the time to wait that slow process. Women possess all these, and I insist that they shall appeal to the courts, and through them establish the powers of our American magna charta to protect every citizen of the Republic." But, friends, when in accordance with Senator Sumner’s counsel, I went to the ballot-box, last November, and exercised my citizen’s right to vote, the courts did not wait for me to appeal to them — they appealed to me, and indicted me on the charge of having voted illegally.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source