Susan B. Anthony quotes

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a key role in the women's suffrage movement. Her tireless efforts contributed greatly to the eventual passage of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in the United States. She became a symbol of determination and the ongoing fight for gender equality. Here are 77 of her quotes:

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.

Susan B. Anthony

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Susan B. Anthony

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Susan B. Anthony

Independence is happiness.

Susan B. Anthony

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Susan B. Anthony

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.

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.

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Susan B. Anthony

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

Susan B. Anthony

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?

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Susan B. Anthony