The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes. Susan B. Anthony More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony More Quotes From Susan B. Anthony Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw. Susan B. Anthony straws generations When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts. Susan B. Anthony favors newspapers writing I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage) Susan B. Anthony fighting atheist years If I could only live another century! Susan B. Anthony if-i-could century life We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write. Susan B. Anthony writing men thinking Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man. Susan B. Anthony feminism independent men I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it! Susan B. Anthony marriage freedom girl Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose. Susan B. Anthony feminism inability mean Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth Susan B. Anthony independence independent giving 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 he-man guilt men When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly! Susan B. Anthony congratulations giving men It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading. Susan B. Anthony circles politics care There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible! Susan B. Anthony dedication failure names No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. Susan B. Anthony feminism independence real ... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government. Susan B. Anthony half men people 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 luxury marriage men 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 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 rebel law men I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. Susan B. Anthony minutes want long For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive. Susan B. Anthony progressive noble people There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. Susan B. Anthony born bread desire
