Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthonywas an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth15 February 1820
CountryUnited States of America
motivational women law
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
birthday educational positivity
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
growing-up responsibility roots
... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.
government justice too-much
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.
men rights machines
All we demand are the same rights as men, and slightly more stalls per restroom. And tampon machines. And those little things in the stalls so we can put our used tampons in them. And, okay, just go ahead and make the bathrooms out of tampons.
gratitude jobs grateful
Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody
lying destiny hands
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
men rights silence
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
hopeless
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
inspiring girl strong-women
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
election suffrage pivotal
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
men way different
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
religious atheist age
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
inspirational happiness independence
Independence is happiness.