Susan B. Anthony Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Believe, Hard Work, Past

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

• There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Wall, Law, Political

• So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Long, Twenties, Levels

• Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Law, Void, Null

  Woman's Rights to the Suffrage Speech, 1873.

• It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Law, Support

  Quoted in Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (1899) Apelles

• When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Congratulations, Men, Giving

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