Susan B. Anthony
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent, independent and well educated American civil rights leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Women's suffrage in the United States.
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- The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
- Speech on No Union with Slaveholders (1857)
- 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.
- On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform (1860)
- Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
- Journal (June 1860)
- Make [your employers] understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
- The Revolution, Women's Suffrage Newspaper (8 October 1868)
- Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
- The Revolution (18 March 1869)
- Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
- Speech in San Francisco (July 1871)
- I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely...for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
- Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Autumn 1872)
- Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied?
- Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote? Speech, before her trial for voting (1873)
- We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights.
- An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge of illegal voting, at the presidential election in Nov. 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of election by whom her vote was received. [1]
- One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.
- An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge of illegal voting, at the presidential election in Nov. 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of election by whom her vote was received.
- Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.
- Speech on Social Purity (Spring 1875)
- I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.
- Woman's Tribune (22 February 1890)
- Regarding Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Failure is impossible.
- At her eighty-sixth birthday celebration (15 February 1906)
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Matilda Joslyn Gage to Editor, 20 June 1873, Kansas Leavenworth Times (3 July 1873)
- My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon.
- The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
- I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law.
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An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting (1874)
- Even, under such circumstances, a commoner of England, tried before a jury of Lords, would have far less cause to complain than should I, a woman, tried before a jury of men.
- But, yesterday, the same man-made forms of law, declared it a crime punishable with $1,000 fine and six months' imprisonment, for you, or me, or any of us, to give a cup of cold water, a crust of bread, or a night's shelter to a panting fugitive as he was tracking his way to Canada. And every man or woman in whose veins coursed a drop of human sympathy violated that wicked law, reckless of consequences, and was justified in so doing.
- I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
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Attributed
- 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.
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External links
- The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2), by Ida Husted Harper, from Project Gutenberg
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