Susan B. Anthony Quotes

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

I have never been ashamed of calling myself a feminist, and I believe passionately in women's rights.

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

Women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights.

When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world. Such a truth is woman's right to equal liberty with man. She was born with it. It was hers before she comprehended it. It is prescribed upon all the powers and faculties of her soul, and no custom, law nor usage can ever destroy it.

Women’s rights are human rights.

We are not crusading for the rights of the women of New England or of old England but of the world.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could... That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.