Susan B. Anthony

Is there a man who will not agree with me, that to talk of “freedom without the ballot” is mockery, is slavery, to the women of this republic, precisely as New England’s orator, Wendell Phillips, at the close of the late war declared it to …

And is all this tyranny any less humiliating and degrading to women, under our democratic republic government to-day, than it was to men, under their aristocratic, monarchical government a hundred years ago? There is not an utterance of …

Even, under such circumstances, a commoner of England, tried before a jury of Lords, would have far less cause to complain than should I, a woman, tried before a jury of men.

I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law.

The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.

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

The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member.

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 am delighted to have the opportunity to talk to women who are comfortably circumstanced, to those who have good fathers, kind brothers and have married the best of men, who do not believe that husband and wife are one and he is the one.

Once men were afraid of women with ideas and a desire to vote. Today, our best suffragists are sought in marriage by the best class of men.

"In those days, we did not know any other way to control children. We believed in the goodness of not sparing the rod. As I got older, I abolished whipping. If I couldn't manage a child, I thought it my ignorance, my lack of ability, as a …

I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.

Though women, as a class, are much less addicted to drunkenness and licentiousness than men, it is universally conceded that they are by far the greater sufferers from these evils.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the …

One-half of the people of this Nation today is utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write a new and just one.

We no longer petition Legislature or Congress to give off the right to vote, but appeal to women everywhere to exercise their too long neglected "citizen's right" … We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the …

Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied?

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

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

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.