In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government.
Susan B. AnthonyThe rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.
Susan B. AnthonyI do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
Susan B. AnthonyMarriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
Susan B. AnthonyCautious, 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.
Susan B. Anthony