It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people andstart them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them. Susan B. Anthony More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony More Quotes From Susan B. Anthony In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government. Susan B. Anthony government rights sex There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning. Susan B. Anthony empires slavery war To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom. Susan B. Anthony impulse form atheist Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them. Susan B. Anthony caring mother children It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him. Susan B. Anthony daughter sea son Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay! Susan B. Anthony salary dollars wages Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . . Susan B. Anthony talent honor baby 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 void null law Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that. Susan B. Anthony too-much government justice Better lose me than lose a state. Susan B. Anthony loses states To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time. Susan B. Anthony successful average ideas The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them. Susan B. Anthony storm hardship men Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever. Susan B. Anthony strong work justice It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever. Susan B. Anthony interest body strong 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 struggle years thinking A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it. Susan B. Anthony shoes growing-up sex Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! Susan B. Anthony moon dog might 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 effort understanding prayer Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Susan B. Anthony outrage racism suffering Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife. Susan B. Anthony gentleman wife husband
