The quotations of

Susan B. Anthony

American women's rights activist

1820–1906

10 quotes, most often on Women and America.

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.
- America
The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
- America
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
- Politics
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
The Revolution, Women’s Suffrage Newspaper (8 October 1868)
- Women
- Work
Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can “the consent of the governed” be given, if the right to vote be denied?
On the United States Declaration of Independence in her “Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?” speech before her trial for voting (1873)
- Democracy
- Voting
The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
Account of Matilda Joslyn Gage (June 20, 1873) to Kansas Leavenworth Times (July 3, 1873)
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.
Speech at the NAWSA convention (1896) against a resolution disavowing Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible; in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. IV (1902)
- God
- Religion
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
Speech in San Francisco (July 1871)
- Women
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.
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years, Volume 2 (1 January 1898) by Ida Husted Harper, published by Bowen-Merrill Company
- Age
I never saw that great woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, but I have read her eloquent and unanswerable arguments in behalf of the liberty of womankind.
Speech at the 38th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Baltimore (15 February 1906)
- Liberty
- Women

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