Susan B. Anthony

"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals."

"If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves."

"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. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men."

"Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it."

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."

"No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend."

"No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex."

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

"Suffrage is the pivotal right."

"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."

"The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit."

"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."

"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman."