Frases de Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony
Data de nascimento: 15. Fevereiro 1820
Data de falecimento: 13. Março 1906
Susan Brownell Anthony foi uma mulher que junto com Elizabeth Cady lutou pelo Direitos das Mulheres.
Citações Susan B. Anthony
„Não confio em gente que sabe exatamente o que Deus quer que elas façam. Sempre coincide com aquilo que elas próprias desejam“
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires
citado em "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses" - v.2 Página 853, de Ida Husted Harper - Publicado por The Bowen-Merrill company, 1898
„Eu nasci uma herege. Desconfio de gente que sabe tanto sobre o que Deus quer que elas façam aos outros“
I was born a heretic. I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows
Susan Anthony citada em "Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Convention of the National American ..." - Página 91, de National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention, Rachel Foster Avery, Convention, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress), Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress, Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress), National American Woman Suffrage Association, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress - Publicado por The Association, 1896 - 202 páginas
„The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.“
Variante: Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
„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.“
Speech in San Francisco (July 1871)<!-- also quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, p. 276 -->
Variante: Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
„I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.“
A defense http://www.thelizlibrary.org/undelete/library/library005.html of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman's Bible at a meeting of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association 1896 Convention, HWS, IV (1902), p. 263
Variante: 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.
Contexto: The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. 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.
„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?“
On the United States Declaration of Independence in her "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" speech before her trial for voting (1873)
„Failure is impossible”
- Susan B. Anthony“
At her eighty-sixth birthday celebration (15 February 1906)
Variante: Failure is impossible.
Fonte: History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
„The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member.“
A defense http://www.thelizlibrary.org/undelete/library/library005.html of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman's Bible at a meeting of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association 1896 Convention, HWS, IV (1902), p. 263
Contexto: The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. 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.
