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
daughter son sea
It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.
baby honor talent
Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .
president salary noble
Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.
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.
thinking philosopher accepting
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.
people noble progressive
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
desire bread born
There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
men luxury incidents
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
grandma law today
Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.
practice principles intolerance
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
states loses
Better lose me than lose a state.
president campaigns looks
Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!
next woman-suffrage suffrage
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.