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Susan B. Anthony Quotes: Sources, Meanings & Themes

Browse quotations by Susan B. Anthony with named works, context notes, meanings and recurring themes.

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Hearing of the Woman Suffrage Association before the Committee on the Judiciary, Monday, January 18, 18921892 · 1 quotation
On Women’s Right to Vote1873 · 1 quotation
The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future1897 · 1 quotation
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I never call myself old because I shall be young until the crack of doom.
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“I never call myself old because I shall be young until the crack of doom.”

Hearing of the Woman Suffrage Association before the Committee on the Judiciary, Monday, January 18, 1892 · 1892
Voice: Authorial / signed preface voice · Susan B. Anthony
Meaning & context

Anthony humorously refuses to let chronological age define her sense of energy or continued participation in the suffrage cause.

Source details

House Committee on the Judiciary woman-suffrage hearing, January 18, 1892. The Library of Congress preserves the official eight-page hearing pamphlet and confirms Anthony among its speakers; the exact interjection is reported in History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV, edited by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper and represented by Project Gutenberg #29870. Anthony makes the remark at the close of Lucy Stone’s argument while introducing Isabella Beecher Hooker. It is Anthony’s live speaker voice within a multi-speaker hearing.

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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.
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“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.”

On Women’s Right to Vote · 1873
Meaning & context

Anthony interprets the Constitution’s opening words as encompassing women and uses that reading to argue that citizenship and political rights cannot properly be restricted to men.

Source details

Speech commonly titled “On Women’s Right to Vote,” delivered after Anthony’s arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election. The statement is constitutional advocacy from the nineteenth-century U.S. woman-suffrage movement, not current legal advice.

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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect law-makers.
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“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect law-makers.”

The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future · 1897
Voice: Authorial / signed preface voice · Susan B. Anthony
Meaning & context

Anthony argues that formal advances for women cannot become full equality while women remain excluded from directly choosing lawmakers and participating in lawmaking.

Source details

“The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future,” The Arena, May 1897, pp. 901–908; exact passage independently preserved in the complete Santa Rosa public-library transcription, PDF p. 5. Anthony says legal reforms will not produce complete equality until women help make laws and elect law-makers. The hyphenated “law-makers” wording is retained; this remains historical suffrage advocacy rather than current legal advice.