More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
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.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.
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.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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.
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
