Susan B. Anthony - Justice Quotes

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I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law.

Susan B. Anthony
At every political convention all matters of right, of justice, of the eternal verities themselves, are swallowed up in the one all-important question, 'Will it bring party success?'

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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Susan B. Anthony
The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.

Susan B. Anthony
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

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We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.

Susan B. Anthony
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

Susan B. Anthony
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.

Susan B. Anthony