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
Susan B. Anthony quotes about
prayer effort understanding
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.
rejoice ride time
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.
carries daughters discord home might oligarchy rebellion rules sex wife
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.
american-activist god people
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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.
strong-women equality rights
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and 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.
together impossible
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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...
strong-women inspiration people
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
education war cry
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
strong-women witty independent
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
hopeless
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
men rights silence
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.