Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations, can never effect a reform.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never […]

What you should say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.

I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W. S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon.