Susan B. Anthony — "We ask for no special privileges, we only ask for our rights."

"Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of the work for women! I would ask for nothing more."

"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry."

"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."

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

"It is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican govern…"