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Susan Brownell Anthony
Geburtstag: 15. Februar 1820
Todesdatum: 13. März 1906
Susan Brownell Anthony war eine Pionierin der US-amerikanischen Frauenrechtsbewegung. Sie wurde „Napoleon der Frauenbewegung“ genannt. Sie war die erste Frau, die bei einer Präsidentschaftswahl in den Vereinigten Staaten als Wählerin registriert wurde und ihre Stimme bei der Wahl von 1872 abgab. Sie wurde deswegen im Juni 1873 wegen unrechtmäßiger Wahlbeeinflussung in einem Aufsehen erregenden Prozess verurteilt.
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Zitate Susan Brownell Anthony
„The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.“
Variante: Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
„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.“
Speech in San Francisco (July 1871)<!-- also quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, p. 276 -->
Variante: Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
„I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.“
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
Variante: 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.
Kontext: 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.
„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?“
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“
At her eighty-sixth birthday celebration (15 February 1906)
Variante: Failure is impossible.
Quelle: History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
„The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member.“
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
Kontext: 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.
„Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.“
This statement was widely used as an abolitionist and feminist slogan in the 19th century and has sometimes been attributed to Anthony, who famously used it, but cited it as an "old revolutionary maxim"; it has also frequently been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, and to Benjamin Franklin, who has been cited as having proposed it as the motto of the United States, as well as to English theologian William Tyndale. The earliest definite citations of a source yet found in research for Wikiquote indicates that it was declared by Massachusetts Governor Simon Bradstreet after the overthrow of Dominion of New England Governor Edmund Andros in relation to the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, as quoted in Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention: assembled May 4th, 1853 (1853) by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, p. 502. It is also quoted as a maxim that arose after the overthrow of Andros in A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore (1883) by Samuel Adams Drake. p. 426
Misattributed
Variante: Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
