Susan B. Anthony - Law 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

But, yesterday, the same man-made forms of law, declared it a crime punishable with $1,000 fine and six months' imprisonment, for you, or me, or any of us, to give a cup of cold water, a crust of bread, or a night's shelter to a panting fugitive as he was tracking his way to Canada. And every man or woman in whose veins coursed a drop of human sympathy violated that wicked law, reckless of consequences, and was justified in so doing.

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There will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and to elect lawmakers.

Susan B. Anthony

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Susan B. Anthony

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.

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