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
religious expression people
The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.
jewels people inconsistency
Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
teacher men doctors
Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?
men together causes
When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
mother wife wish
When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.
god mother father
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
change trying discontent
it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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.