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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.
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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.
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.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
