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
strong body interest
It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
cutting demand arms
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.
independent men feminism
Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
learning rights abolitionist
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
love marriage ideas
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
men political records
If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
mother daughter brother
. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.
long want minutes
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
teaching government people
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
religion atheism knees
I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.
children punishment roots
I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.
equal-pay demand employers
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
children abortion suffering
I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.
mean feminism world
Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.