More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.
Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.
No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.
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.
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.
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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.
