-Susan B. Anthony, in "Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony," vol. 4, ch. 16. by A. H. Shaw and I. H. Harper, 1902., Convention speech, Jan. 1896, January, 1896
"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, (motto), "The Revolution (a New York weekly paper that she was proprietor of 1868 to 1870)"
One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.
(An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge of illegal voting, at the presidential election in Nov. 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of election by whom her vote was received)
"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood."
"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory."
Universal manhood suffrage, by establishing an aristocracy of sex, imposes upon the women of this nation a more absolute and cruel despotism than monarchy; in that, woman finds a political master in her father, husband, brother, son. The aristocracies of the old world are based upon birth, wealth, refinement, education, nobility, brave deeds of chivalry; in this nation, on sex alone; exalting brute force above moral power, vice above virtue, ignorance above education, and the son above the mother who bore him.
[From the Association’s “Declaration of the Rights of Woman,” written for the centennial of American independence. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) read it on July 4, 1876, from the steps of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.]
-Susan B. Anthony, National Woman Suffrage Association. As quoted in The History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 3, ch. 27, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)
"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."
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