{"id":636,"date":"2015-11-15T04:10:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T04:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/repeatright.com\/engine\/?p=636"},"modified":"2018-10-08T23:05:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T23:05:15","slug":"anthony-susan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/anthony-susan-b\/","title":{"rendered":"ANTHONY, Susan B."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cA republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Susan B. Anthony<\/strong>, American civil rights leader<\/p>\n

Letter to friend Dr. Sarah R. Dolley (1900) cited in\u00a0The<\/em> Life and Works of Susan B. Anthony<\/em>, ed. Ida Husted Harper, Vol. 3, Indianapolis, IN: Hollenbeck\u00a0<\/span>Press., 1908, p. 1204<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf63e30b-00c2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Letter to friend Dr. Sarah R. Dolley]:<\/p>\n

\u201cA republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people<\/span>. While we have class and sectarian schools the parties supporting them will not give their fullest aid toward building up the public school system. If all of the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel found to concentrate their money and energies on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. To be a success a republic must have a homogeneous people, and to do this it must have homogeneous schools. You may grow more and more in favor of sectarian schools, as you say, but I grow more and more opposed to them.\u201d (p. 1204)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Sarah Read Dolley<\/strong> (1829-1909) was the first female physician to practice in Rochester, New York, and one of the first women to receive a medical degree in the United States.<\/p>\n

[Source<\/em>: \u201cDr. Sarah Read Adamson Dolley\u201d (2005) \u2018Changing the Face of Medicine,\u2019 U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health; online via cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov]<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong> [Featured source]<\/span>: Letter to Sarah R. Dolley, excerpt in The<\/em> Life and Works of Susan B. Anthony<\/em> (1908) Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=iooEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1204&lpg=PA1204&dq=A+republican+government<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong> [Source note]<\/span>: \u201cDr. Sarah Read Adamson Dolley\u201d (2005) online via National Institutes of Health: https:\/\/cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov\/physicians\/biography_87.html<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbce30b-00c2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cCautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world\u2019s estimation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Susan B. Anthony<\/strong>, American civil rights leader<\/p>\n

Writing in response to a Boston woman\u2019s convention that was not \u201copen to free discussion but [was limited] to the subjects of Education, Vocation and Civil Position\u201d (1860) cited in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many\u00a0<\/em>of Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years<\/em>, ed. Ida Husted Harper, Vol. I, [Chapter XII \u2013 \u2018Rift in Common\u00a0<\/span>Law \u2013 Divorce Question] Indianapolis, IN: Hollenbeck Press, 1898, p. 197; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e62e30b-00c2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: \u201cCautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world\u2019s estimation<\/span>, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.\u201d (p. 197)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4ce30b-00c2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many\u00a0<\/em>of Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years, <\/em>Vol. I (1898) Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=SYoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA197&dq=Cautious,+careful+people,+always+casting<\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1ee30b-00c2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball \u2013 the further I am rolled, the more I gain.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Susan B. Anthony<\/strong>, American civil rights activist<\/p>\n

Response to interview question, \u201cThen you don\u2019t find life tiresome?\u201d (2 February 1896) \u201cChampion of Her Sex,\u201d Interview with Nelly Bly, New York World\u00a0<\/em>newspaper, cited in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and <\/em>Many of Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years<\/em>, ed. Ida Husted Harper, Vol. II, [Chapter XLVI \u2013 \u2018Mrs.Stanton\u2019s Birthday \u2013 The Bible Resolution, 1895-1896] Indianapolis, IN: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1898, p. 859; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bfe30b-00c2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Newspaper interview]\n

Question<\/u>: \u201cThen you don\u2019t find life tiresome?\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthony<\/u>: \u201cO, mercy, no! I don\u2019t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. I dread the thought of being enfeebled. The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball \u2013 the further I am rolled the more I gain<\/span>.\u201d (p. 859)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e0e30b-00c2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many\u00a0<\/em>of Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years, <\/em>Vol. II (1898) Google Books: <\/span>https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=NfYbAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA859&lpg=PA859&dq=The+older+I+get,+the+greater+power+I+seem+to+have+to+help+the+world<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf63e30b-00c2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cOf all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman\u2019s garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. This idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Susan B. Anthony<\/strong>, American civil rights activist<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Status of Women, Past, Present, and Future\u201d (May 1897) The Arena<\/em>, Vol. XVII, No. 90; in volume XVII (December 1896 \u2013 June 1897), The Arena<\/em>, ed. John Clark Ridpath, Boston, MA: Arena Co., 1897, p. 903; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf63e30b-00c2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Magazine essay. In the introduction, Anthony wrote: \u201cA request from The Arena to state what really has come of our half-century of agitation, and what is sure to come in the near future, will be used as the basis of this article.\u201d (p. 901)]\n

\u201cThe literary woman placed herself forever beyond the pale of marriage, for no man would be brave enough to take for a wife a creature who had thus unsexed herself. If she could write, it followed without question that she could not cook, sew, manage a house, or bring up children, and her name in connection suggested at once an appalling scene of disorder and discomfort. This belief prevailed, to a great extent, in regard to a woman who attempted any vocation outside of domestic service, that by so doing she became at once and forever unfitted for the duties of wife and mother. Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman\u2019s garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. This idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Arena<\/em> magazine, Vol. XVII (1897) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=60MZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA903&dq=Of+all+the+old+prejudices+that+cling+to+the+hem<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1522608897333-96b5b61e-cfb9″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe religious persecution of the ages has been carried on under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice that it always coincides with their own desires.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Susan B. Anthony<\/strong>, American civil rights activist<\/p>\n

Address in response to a resolution to adopt a \u2018Woman\u2019s Bible\u2019 at the National American Woman Suffrage Association meeting (January 1896) Washington, D.C., cited in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many\u00a0<\/em>of Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years<\/em>, ed. Ida Husted Harper, Vol. II, [Chapter XLVI \u2013 \u2018Mrs. Stanton\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Birthday \u2013 The Bible Resolution, 1895-1896] Indianapolis, IN: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1898, p. 853; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1522608897404-3421c9fb-4d7a”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one distinct feature of our association [The National American Woman Suffrage Association] has been the right of individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at each step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of sentiments which differed from those held by the majority. The religious persecution of the ages has been carried on under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice that it always coincides with their own desires.<\/span> All the way along the history of our movement there has been this same contest on account of religious theories. Forty years ago one of our noblest men said to me, \u201cYou would better never hold another convention than allow Ernestine L. Rose on your platform;\u201d because that eloquent woman, who ever stood for justice and freedom, did not believe in the plenary inspiration of the Bible. Did we banish Mrs. Rose? No, indeed!<\/p>\n

Ever new generation of converts threshes over the same old straw. The point is whether you will sit in judgment on one who questions the divine inspiration of certain passages in the Bible derogatory to women. If Mrs. Stanton had written approvingly of these passages you would not have brought in this resolution for fear the cause might be injured among the liberals in religion. In other words, if she had written your views, you would not have considered a resolution necessary. To pass this one is to set back the hands on the dial of reform.\u201d (pp. 853-854)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1522608897481-434dd6d1-01c3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many\u00a0<\/em>of Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years, <\/em>Vol. II (1898) Google Books:\u00a0https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ADgQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA853&dq=The+religious+persecution+of+the+ages<\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1522608897642-fe402d71-ddf1″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe True Republic – Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Susan B. Anthony<\/strong>, American civil rights activist<\/p>\n

Motto of Anthony\u2019s Revolution<\/em> newspaper (1868) cited in The\u00a0<\/em>Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many of Her <\/em>Contemporaries During Fifty Years<\/em>, ed. Ida Husted Harper, Vol. I, [Chapter XXI \u2013 \u2018End of Revolution \u2013 <\/span>Status of Woman Suffrage, 1870] Indianapolis, IN: Hollenbeck Press, 1898, p. 363; online via Google <\/span>Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1522608897722-75d1cb47-8573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: \u201cThe motto of The Revolution, \u201cThe True Republic \u2013 Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less,\u201d was succeeded by \u201cWhat God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.\u201d It was transformed into a literary and society journal, established in elegant headquarters at Brooklyn, inaugurated with a fashionable reception, and conducted by Mrs. Bullard for eighteen months, when she tired of it, or her father tired of advancing money, and it passed into other hands.\u201d (p. 363)<\/p>\n

Extended excerpt – Image<\/em><\/strong>: [Text as it appeared under the banner title of Anthony\u2019s newspaper, The Revolution<\/em>] \u201cPrinciple, Not Policy: Justice, Not Favors \u2013 Men, Their Rights and Nothing More; Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: [Image<\/span>] The Revolution<\/em> (18 June 1868) front page, Accessible Archives: http:\/\/www.accessible-archives.com\/collections\/the-revolution\/<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1522608897819-2b496534-b782″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0[Featured text]<\/span> The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many of Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years<\/em>, Vol. I (1898) Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ZUsvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA363&lpg=PA363&dq=The+true+republic:+men,+their+rights+and+nothing+more;+women,+their+rights+and+nothing+less\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: [Image of motto as it appeared on Anthony’s paper<\/span>]\n

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Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Susan B. Anthony<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0| Here are a few good places to find out more –<\/p>\n