Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony

18 quotes

Susan B. Anthony, an American women's rights activist, is widely remembered for insights that continue to resonate with readers everywhere. Their thinking spans from Women to Men, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Discover 24 of Susan B. Anthony's most memorable quotes, ranging across Women, Men, Work, God, and War. Start here and see if you agree: "Failure is impossible."

“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

Men

All Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

War

“Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.”

— Susan B. Anthony

Men

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

— Susan B. Anthony

Good

“Independence is happiness.”

— Susan B. Anthony

Happiness

“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

Trust

“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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

Women

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

— Susan B. Anthony

Work

“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

God

“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

Power

“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

Men

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

— Susan B. Anthony

Work

“Failure is impossible.”

— Susan B. Anthony

Failure

“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

Money

“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

Men

“I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

Men

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

— Susan B. Anthony

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

Women