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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.
Resolved, That is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
While the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege.
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
Susan B. Anthony, Correspondence, Writings, Speeches (1981)
The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.
The Woman's Bible (1898)
In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object.
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!
Susan B. Anthony (1884)
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.
Solitude of Self (1892)
No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.
Solitude of Self (1892)
When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
The Woman's Bible (1898)
Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.
Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.
Susan B. Anthony (1884)
In fact the wives of the patriarchs, all untruthful, and one a kleptomaniac, but illustrate the law, that the cardinal virtues are seldom found in oppressed classes.
The Woman's Bible (1898)
Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man.
I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.
No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.
Solitude of Self (1892)