24 Quotes By Susan B. Anthony


Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony on failure

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 on god

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Susan B. Anthony on god

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Susan B. Anthony on good

Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony on happiness

Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony on history

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony on men

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 on men

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony on men

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. Anthony on men

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony on money

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 on power

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Susan B. Anthony on trust

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
Susan B. Anthony on war

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. Anthony on women

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
Susan B. Anthony on women

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony on women

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 on women

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony on women

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
Susan B. Anthony on women