What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns! Susan B. Anthony More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony More Quotes From Susan B. Anthony Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. Susan B. Anthony womengrandmotherinspirational Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma. Susan B. Anthony advancementgrandmalaw You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry. Susan B. Anthony intoleranceprinciplespractice 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 mistaketalkingpeople ... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her. Susan B. Anthony selfshould-havemen For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded. Susan B. Anthony israelsimplechildren If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of these college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world. Susan B. Anthony progressgirlcollege I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States. Susan B. Anthony girlmemoriesschool Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights. Susan B. Anthony abolitionistlearningrights If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been. Susan B. Anthony recordspoliticalmen . . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation. Susan B. Anthony daughterbrothermother I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it. Susan B. Anthony punishmentrootschildren ... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience! Susan B. Anthony handsartthinking The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man. Susan B. Anthony womandaymanworld She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. Susan B. Anthony shewillbicyclelife Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. Susan B. Anthony whoevermoralswageswork No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex. Susan B. Anthony womanworksuccesssex An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation. Susan B. Anthony wifemotherhomefather The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth. Susan B. Anthony castecolorracesex It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men. Susan B. Anthony blessingswomenmenpeople
