susan b anthony quotes

Susan B Anthony (1820 - 1906) was an American social reformer and suffragist. Some of her quotes can affect you at the core. Here is a collection of the most popular Susan B Anthony quotes.

* I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows...

* It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union...

* Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work...

* If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals...

* 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, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...

* I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon.

* Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less...

* Independence is happiness...




# Failure is impossible.

# Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

# Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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She worked her entire life for suffrage....and never saw it. Frederick Douglass stabbed her in the back. Something that isn't discussed much. But the Truth is painful.

I still have a bunch of Susan B. coins. Stupid f*cking government made them just a tad bigger than a quarter but Susan Bs were worth a dollar. No one liked them because of that.

She endured so much. Yet she fought and fought and fought.

If we were only half what she was.

and could count on the fact that most people assumed they were quarters.

I had no idea... thanks!

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she would lived to see the 19th amendment passed. It took SOOO incredibly long for women to get the right to vote. What an embarrassment. I'm grateful that Susan B. Anthony was incredibly tenacious, or it would have taken even longer.

an amazing film about the fight to gain women's suffrage (and a companion to the bbc series "shoulder to shoulder", about the fight for women's suffrage in great britain)