Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 -March 13, 1906) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was a school teacher who became involved with abolitionism and then temperance. After the American Civil War she became discouraged that those working for "Negro" suffrage were still against votes for women, and co-founded the American Equal Rights Association.

5 Quotes

The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
— Susan B. Anthony

Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
— Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
— Susan B. Anthony

Suffrage is the pivotal right.
— Susan B. Anthony

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
— Susan B. Anthony