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. Susan B. Anthony More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony More Quotes From Susan B. Anthony 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 positivity educational birthday Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman? Susan B. Anthony doctors teacher men What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns! Susan B. Anthony absurd moral intellectual Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us! Susan B. Anthony campaigns president looks 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 recognition resistance revolutionary Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. Susan B. Anthony strong-women inspiration people Independence is happiness. Susan B. Anthony independence happiness inspirational If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. Susan B. Anthony education children school 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 prayer men religion Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody Susan B. Anthony gratitude grateful jobs There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall. Susan B. Anthony wall political law 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. Susan B. Anthony strong-women daughter inspiring 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. Susan B. Anthony strong-women girl inspiring A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people Susan B. Anthony government teaching people 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 equal-pay employers demand [Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their association she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer to each other; when I would go to her home and help with the children and the housekeeping through the day and then we would sit up far into the night preparing our ammunition and getting ready to move on the enemy. The years since the rewards began to come have brought no enjoyment like that. Susan B. Anthony struggle children moving ... we should be miserable but for the consciousness that we have done all in our power to help forward every measure for the freedom and equality of the races and the sexes. Susan B. Anthony race responsibility sex The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit. Susan B. Anthony pulpit worst-enemy enemy 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 motto rights men 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 expression religious people
