Susan B. Anthony

“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.”

“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.”

“Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.”

“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.”

“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.”

“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”

“I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.”

“Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.”

“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?”

“Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.”

“Though women, as a class, are much less addicted to drunkenness and licentiousness than men, it is universally conceded that they are by far the greater sufferers from these evils.”

“I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.”

“I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk to women who are comfortably circumstanced, to those who have good fathers, kind brothers and have married the best of men, who do not believe that husband and wife are one and he is the one.”

“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 fact is women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize.”

“I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.”

“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.”

“I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law.”

“Even, under such circumstances, a commoner of England, tried before a jury of Lords, would have far less cause to complain than should I, a woman, tried before a jury of men.”

“Is there a man who will not agree with me, that to talk of “freedom without the ballot” is mockery, is slavery, to the women of this republic, precisely as New England’s orator, Wendell Phillips, at the close of the late war declared it to be to the newly emancipated black men?”