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Susan B. Anthony Quotes

"Failure is impossible""The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and to take their trial in court""I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim, no taxation without representation""Join the union girl, join the union""I do not consider divorce an evil by any means""I distrust those who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires""Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry""No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent""The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man""Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.""The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball—the further I am rolled, the more I gain.""I do not demand equal pay for any woman save those who do equal work in value.""I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.""Independence is happiness.""I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.""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 reputations, can never effect a reform.""There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."