Susan B. Anthony Quotes
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people—women as well as men.
Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906, Woman's Suffrage Leader, Speech, 1873
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This remarkable statement was written in about 1840 and there was probably then few people of either gender who would think such a thing possible.
First female presidential candidate & first divorcee to run for that office. The half to which she was referring were the females, who by many narrow laws were unable to participate in the intellectual and political life of the country. At the time, women could not even vote.
In its early history Wyoming was a very liberal—perhaps radical—state. Wyoming women were the first in the nation to vote, serve on juries and hold public office. In 1920, an all-female town council was elected in Jackson Hole, the first political unit in America to have a female government. This made national news and with it the “Equality State” entered the consciousness of most Americans.
This quotation illustrates the statement of a reform principle to appease international interests in basic human rights. This type of statement provides the “fig leaf” for the UN and other organizations to pretend that international standards of human rights are being maintained. Nasser did not implement this principle. By the beginning of the 21st century, Egypt was finally making some progress on women’s equality issues. The prohibition on female members of Parliament—{586723}—had been reversed but women were still not allowed to be judges in a criminal trial, laws against infant female circumcision, and other elements of female equality were still not in existence.
Mounting the scaffold referred to the scaffold for execution via the guillotine. If women could be executed she argued, women should be able to engage in public politics. Many women were executed in the frenzy and terror of the French Revolution. Ironically, the year after she wrote this, she herself mounted the scaffold and was beheaded by the state.
He was very conservative in almost all things, but here and with poverty (see {638805}) he was far ahead of his time.
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.
