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.
— Susan B. Anthony
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)
— Susan B. Anthony
Context: 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.
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
— Susan B. Anthony, History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
— Susan B. Anthony
Context: 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.
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
