More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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.
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.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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 do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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.
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
