... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.
Susan B. AnthonyI 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.
Susan B. AnthonyNo genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
Susan B. AnthonyThose who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
Susan B. AnthonyGentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.
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