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
long levels may
So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.
wall law political
There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.
men should-have law
Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.
next woman-suffrage suffrage
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
president campaigns looks
Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!
states loses
Better lose me than lose a state.
practice principles intolerance
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
grandma law today
Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.
men luxury incidents
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
desire bread born
There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
people noble progressive
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
thinking philosopher accepting
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.
reform world womens-suffrage
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
intellectual moral absurd
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!