Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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.

If “all men are born free,” how is it that all women are born slaves?

Woman was the first human being that tasted bondage. Woman was a slave before the slave existed.

I haven't run across anyone in Georgia who is not regretful and repentant of man's inhumanity when you talk about owning one another.

If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

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.

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

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

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?

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

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

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

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.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.

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.

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.