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Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony > Quotes
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
― Susan B. Anthony
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
― Susan B. Anthony
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
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
― Susan B. Anthony
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
― Susan B. Anthony
I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
― Susan B. Anthony
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
― Susan B. Anthony
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
Failure is Impossible
― Susan B. Anthony
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, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...
― Susan B. Anthony
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
― Susan B. Anthony
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.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less
― Susan B. Anthony
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
― Susan B. Anthony
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
Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God
― Susan B. Anthony
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
― Susan B. Anthony
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... how much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex, to talk of male and female education and of male and female schools. [written with Elizabeth Cady Stanton]
― 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
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.
― Susan B. Anthony
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
― Susan B. Anthony
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
...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
― Susan B. Anthony
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.
― Susan B. Anthony
When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
― Susan B. Anthony
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some quotes of the day-susan b anthony (Original Post)
niyad
Feb 2013
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sheshe2
(83,791 posts)1. Great quotes Niyad!
My favorite:
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.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less
― Susan B. Anthony
Thank for the post!
niyad
(113,344 posts)2. that, and "never another season of silence" and "failure is impossible"
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)3. I'm a big fan of Susan Anthony and Christabel Pankhurst.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)4. Thank you for these
...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
― Susan B. Anthony
I think the women of this nation (and the world) have even greater cause for discontent now--all of the suffragettes and women's liberation activists must be rolling in their graves.
niyad
(113,344 posts)5. I can only imagine what they must be thinking--I am angry because I have spent my whole life
fighting for our rights--I did think that, at some point, those rights might actually be achieved. now it looks like we are only a few nut cases from burning women at the stake again.