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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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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Independence is happiness.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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.
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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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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.