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

— Susan B. Anthony

God

All Quotes by 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

Work

“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

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

— Susan B. Anthony

God

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

— Susan B. Anthony

Men

“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

“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

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

— Susan B. Anthony

Women

“Independence is happiness.”

— Susan B. Anthony

Happiness

“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 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

“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

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

— Susan B. Anthony

Work

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

— Susan B. Anthony

War

“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

“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

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

— Susan B. Anthony

Good

“Failure is impossible.”

— Susan B. Anthony

Failure