Susan B. Anthony

"The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it." "The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes." "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, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." "I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it." "I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."