Susan B. Anthony

I don't think there is a single thing I could do that would be more important than to vote.

I have been and am a Unitarian.

To think that any man can be the father of a woman, and yet deny her the right to vote, is to me an incomprehensible absurdity.

The one word for all our demands is 'suffrage.'

The only way to get a man to do something is to make him think it was his idea in the first place.

Social purity cannot be maintained without equality.

We ask for no special privileges, we only ask for our rights.

I shall work the next thirty years as I have the last thirty, to bring about the enfranchisement of women.

It is an absolute fact that the women of this nation are suffering under the curse of taxation without representation.

It is not for us to be discouraged, but to push on.

Every generation of the children of Israel were made to pay for the sins of their fathers.

I have been a working woman all my life; and I know the trials and tribulations of working women.

The ballot is the only safety; by it woman can protect herself.

I have been for the last thirty years a paid agitator.

If we would have a true republic, we must have an educated suffrage, a free ballot and a fair count.

The fact is, women are in chains, and their emancipation is a crying need.

There can be no true democracy until women are enfranchised.

I have given my life to the cause of woman, and I have never regretted it.