Quotes by Women's Rights Activists

I pray every single moment of my life not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

Susan B. Anthony

...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Susan B. Anthony

Every human being has like Socrates an attendant spirit and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do it always cautions us what not to do.

Lydia M. Child

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Lydia M. Child

If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at once become prudent and useful, when the cares of life press heavily upon them.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

Sojourner Truth

The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

Mahnaz Afkhami

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

Susan B. Anthony

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Susan B. Anthony

Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

Sojourner Truth