Susan B. Anthony

I think the best way to prove that the world can be run without men is to run it without men.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

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

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about any social reform.

Failure is impossible.

I have been and am a Unitarian. I believe in the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the sisterhood of woman.

The religious bigotry of public opinion is the one obstacle to woman's equality.

Independence is happiness.

I would rather have my right hand cut off than ask the ballot for the black man and not for woman.

We shall someday be in the majority, and then we shall govern.

I have been a rebel all my life.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems hard.

Our job is not to make the world safe for democracy, but to make democracy safe for the world.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people—women as well as men.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than had the men of 1776.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

I appeal to the women of the United States, in this 100th year of our national existence, to make the Declaration of Independence a living reality for all.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect law makers.