Top 58 Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

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.

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.

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.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

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

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

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

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.