I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.
Susan B. AnthonyI stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
Susan B. AnthonyTrust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Susan B. AnthonyFor a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
Susan B. AnthonyWhat words can express her [the white womanโs] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.
Susan B. Anthony