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.
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escritora e poetisa portuguesa
Citações Susan B. Anthony
„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
Speech in San Francisco (July 1871)<!-- also quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, p. 276 -->
„I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.“
— Susan B. Anthony
Context: 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.
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
„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?“
— Susan B. Anthony
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“
— Susan B. Anthony, History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
At her eighty-sixth birthday celebration (15 February 1906)
„The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member.“
— Susan B. Anthony
Context: 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.
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
