Susan B. Anthony

“Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], 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? On the United States Declaration of Independence in her "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" speech before her trial for voting (1873)”

“Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes. Woman's Rights to the Suffrage Speech (1873)”

“I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less. Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Autumn 1872)”

“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself. Speech in San Francisco (July 1871)”

“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. The Revolution (18 March 1869)”

“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. The Revolution, Women's Suffrage Newspaper (8 October 1868)”

“Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights. Journal (June 1860)”

“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. On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform (1860)”

“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South. Speech on No Union with Slaveholders (1857)”

“The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self, — do her own individual work — stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength... She will proclaim the "glad tidings of good news" to all women, that woman equally with man was made for her own individual happiness, to develop every power of her three fold-nature, to use, worthily every talent given to her by God, in the great work of life. Statement of Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1856), partially quoted in The Right to Vote (2001) by Claudia Isler, p. 50, and in Perfecting the Family : Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America (1997) by Chris Dixon, p. 144”