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
law powerful-women helping
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.
kings women government
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.
character excellence looks
I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.
men white wife
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
strong-women inspiration people
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
together impossible
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
thinking world approval
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
education war cry
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
courage peace integrity
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...
inspirational death god
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
inspirational sad women
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
party promise done
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
love life birthday
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.