Susan B. Anthony Quotes

To be compelled to stand by and see you whip and slash my wife without mercy, when I can afford her no protection, not even by offering myself to suffer the lash in her place, was more than I felt it to be the duty of a slave husband to endure, while the way was open to Canada.

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

I have the right to determine who shall be my mate without the permission of any man. I am not a slave.

Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what is the meaning of the stripes? They mean your Negroes' scars.

Good women are obedient. If they are not, send them to separate beds … and beat them.