Susan B. Anthony Quotes
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.
Harper, Ida Husted. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony. Vol. 3, The Hollenbeck Press, 1908.
Although born and educated in the United States, she lived mostly in England and was politically active there.
Many people, mostly men, tended to regard and label the militant suffragettes as extremists and allowed as how women who advocated their voting rights but in an acceptable way might be wrong but they were at least ladies. The same kind of attempted split occurred in the latter half of the 20th century over the Woman’s movement. The Feminists were not “ladies” and were not to be emulated by normal women even if they had sympathy for he views. Groups without power have always been acceptable to society as long as their cries for a share of power were ineffectual and did not disrupt the existing order. But when they begin to use more successful means and are heard and attended to, then they are labeled as extremists not to be emulated by “decent” people.
Woodrow Wilson had just finished speaking to the convention – see {638532}. This statement was thought be some to be insulting to the President who said he favored the right of women to vote, but did very little if anything to make that happen. Although Shaw was an ordained Methodist Minister, the Methodist Episcopal Church refused to allow her to preach because of her suffrage views.
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
