I 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. Anthony
Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Failure is impossible.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.
