Best Quotes by Susan B. Anthony (Top 10)

  1. Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
  2. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
  3. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
  4. A woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
  5. 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.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less
  6. 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.
  7. Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...
  8. Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
  9. There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
  10. 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.

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