Susan B. Anthony

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

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.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

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.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

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. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

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

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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

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.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?

Independence is happiness.

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