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
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody
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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.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Independence is happiness.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.