Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob Quotes

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

Failure is impossible.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

Cautious, 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.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied?

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob
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