Susan B. Anthony

I am here to tell you that it is a crime for a citizen of the United States to vote.

Every generation of women has to fight for their rights.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the right paramount to all others, the right of suffrage.

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

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in the councils of the nation.

I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men’s rights are nothing more. Women’s rights are 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 will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

The old anti-slavery school says, 'Wait until the Negro is safe, and then we will attend to the women.' But we say, 'No, we will not wait for the Negro, nor for anyone else.'

I do not believe there is any other power in this country that could have resisted the combined forces of the prejudice of race and sex combined, but the great power of the ballot.

The greatest question of the hour is, 'Shall woman be granted the right to vote?'

I think the world is upside down when a woman is forced to work for a living, and men are not.

No advanced step taken by women has been so bitterly contested as that of speaking in public.

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.

Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Trust me that as I ignore all the petty stuff, so will I ignore this, and all the questions and criticisms that may arise from it.

It is not the ballot that has made the difference, but the agitation for it.

If all the world were to go to smash, I would still hold fast to my principles.