Quotes from Susan B. Anthony

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

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

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.