Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Susan B. Anthony (American Civil Rights Leader)

Susan Brownell Anthony (1820–1906) was an American social reformer and leader of the woman suffrage movement. She also campaigned for the emancipation of the slaves and joined the temperance movement.

Born in Adams, Massachusetts, Anthony was a schoolteacher and liberal Quaker. She traveled, lectured, and campaigned throughout her life for women’s rights. Her plainspoken, hard-hitting speeches rallied people around her cause.

Anthony organized the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Their circle of friends started a women’s newspaper in New York City called The Revolutionist; the paper’s slogan was, “Men, their rights and nothing more; Women, their rights and nothing less.”

In 1872, Anthony led a group of women to the polls in Rochester, New York, to test the franchise for women under the Fourteenth Amendment. Her arrest, trial, and sentence of a fine, which she refused to pay, became an exemplar for suffrage protests everywhere.

Anthony and Stanton, along with Matilda Joslyn Gage, compiled the History of Woman Suffrage (1881–1902.) Anthony is the heroine of Gertrude Stein’s opera The Mother of Us All (1949.)

The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was ratified on August 18, 1920, 14 years after Anthony’s death.

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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Men & Women

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

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Exercise

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
Topics: Reputation, Reform

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
Topics: Desires

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Woman, Progress

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.
Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Ideals, Education

Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.
Susan B. Anthony

Universal manhood suffrage, by establishing an aristocracy of sex, imposes upon the women of this nation a more absolute and cruel despotism than monarchy; in that, woman finds a political master in her father, husband, brother, son. The aristocracies of the old world are based upon birth, wealth, refinement, education, nobility, brave deeds of chivalry; in this nation, on sex alone; exalting brute force above moral power, vice above virtue, ignorance above education, and the son above the mother who bore him.
Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Men & Women

Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Voting

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.
Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Equality

Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
Topics: Positive Attitudes, Mindsets, Optimism, Failure

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