Susan B. Anthony Quotes

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

The Equal Rights Amendment is a necessity of life…

… the right to an abortion is society’s down payment on all the rights we [women] are yet due.

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.

I can only speak for myself and what feminism means to me, and that is equality for every human being: equal rights, equal representation, equal pay, etc.

Equal rights for women and queer folks!

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.

The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.