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
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!
wall law political
There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.
long levels may
So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.
real pride men
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As a right over a man's subsistence is a power over his moral being, so a right over a woman's subsistence enslaves her will, degrades her pride and vitiates her whole moral nature.
daughter fashion editors
Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.
men self should-have
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.
men storm hardship
The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.
children simple government
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.