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
strong teaching acceptance
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.
prayer men religion
I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
girl equal-pay diversity
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
witty should-have purses
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
men rights motto
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
mean divorce men
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
done fruition century
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
justice guarantees sentiments
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
facts realizing chains
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
wages pay salary
Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
mistake talking people
It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people andstart them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them.
intellectual moral absurd
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
reform world womens-suffrage
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
people noble progressive
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.