I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily. Susan B. Anthony More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony More Quotes From Susan B. Anthony 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 I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex. Susan B. Anthony struggle believe sex I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. Susan B. Anthony riding-a-bicycle cycling wheels 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 women history people Let me tell you what I think of 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 a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. Susan B. Anthony women healing inspirational Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. Susan B. Anthony equal-pay diversity girl Every woman should have a purse of her own. Susan B. Anthony purses should-have witty 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 party done promise Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people. Susan B. Anthony inconsistency jewels people When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability. Susan B. Anthony wife mother wish I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. Susan B. Anthony suffrage woman-suffrage next To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority. Susan B. Anthony strong acceptance teaching I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman. Susan B. Anthony arms demand cutting 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 white-man wife men The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. Susan B. Anthony diversity atheist religious 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 powerful-women law helping Suffrage is the pivotal right. Susan B. Anthony laughter inspiration education It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality. Susan B. Anthony women government kings Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. Susan B. Anthony uprising feminist men it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better. Susan B. Anthony discontent change trying
