Susan B. Anthony Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• 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

• Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Women, Grandmother

• Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mean, Feminism, Inability

• 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.

• Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Grandma, Law, Advancement

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