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
atheist fighting years
I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)
years rose different
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
years world opponents
... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year; once a month or once a week is not enough.
hard seems
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.
american-activist god people
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
men people united-states
... 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.
law null today
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
men guilt he-man
The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
generations straws
Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
writing favors newspapers
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
women believe opponents
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
war women roots
Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his desire to protect woman in the barbarous periods of pillage, lust, and war. But wherever the roots may be traced, the results at this hour are equally disastrous to woman. Her best interests and happiness do not seem to have been consulted in the arrangements made for her protection. She has been bought and sold, caressed and crucified at the will and pleasure of her master.
writing men thinking
We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
marriage men luxury
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.