Susan Brownell Anthony fue una feminista y sufragista estadounidense. Defensora de los derechos civiles, jugó un importante papel en la lucha por los derechos de la mujer y el derecho de voto femenino en el siglo XIX en Estados Unidos.[1]
Fue presidenta de la Asociación Nacional pro Sufragio de la Mujer, organización que creó junto a Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Su objetivo era demostrar que las mujeres eran capaces de mantenerse unidas bajo la única base de su "womanhood" o la experiencia de ser mujer. Su éxito fue tal que en 1925 agrupaba a treinta y seis millones de mujeres pertenecientes a asociaciones feministas de todos los países.[2]
Susan Anthony y otras 14 mujeres consiguieron registrarse para las elecciones presidenciales de 1872 y votar. Fueron arrestadas una semana después por votar ilegalmente.[3]
Viajó varios miles de kilómetros a través de los Estados Unidos y Europa dando de 75 a 100 discursos por año sobre el sufragio y el derecho de la mujer al mismo durante 45 años aproximadamente. Viajó en carruajes, vagones, trenes, mulas, bicicletas, diligencias, transbordadores y, en ocasiones, en trineos.
Falleció en Rochester, Nueva York, el 13 de marzo de 1906. Actualmente, sus restos se encuentran inhumados en el cementerio de Mount Hope.
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“Las mujeres no deben depender de la protección de un hombre, sino que deben aprender a protegerse.”
Original: «Women must no depend upon the protection of a man, but must be taught to protect herself».
Fuente: Discurso en San Francisco, julio de 1871.
Original: «The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain».
Fuente: Citado en Edlin, Craig A. Practical Career Advice for a Turbulent Working World. Editorial AuthorHouse, 2010. ISBN 9781452072500. p. 74.
Con respecto a Elizabeth Cady Stanton en Woman's Tribune de 22 de febrero de 1890.
Original: «I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand».
Fuente: Citado en Gordon, Ann D. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Their Place Inside the Body-Politic, 1887 to 1895. Editorial Rutgers University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780813564401. p. 243.
Original: «The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South».
Fuente: Bartlett, John. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Editor Geoffrey O'Brien. 18ª Edición. Editorial Hachette UK, 2014. ISBN 9780316250184.. p. 276.
“Haced entender a vuestros empleadores que estais a su servicio como trabajadoras no como mujeres.”
Original: «Make your employers understand that you are in their service as workers not as women».
Fuente: The Revolution (periódico sufragista para mujeres), 8 de octubre de 1868.
Original: «Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life».
Fuente: Discurso sobre la pureza social (primavera de 1875).
“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.
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.
Contexto: 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.
“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.
“May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.”
On her $100 fine, as quoted in An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting] (1874) The "old revolutionary maxim" Anthony uses here has been variously attributed to William Tyndale, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, as well as to herself.
Variant: Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God; I shall never pay a penny of this unjust claim.
As quoted in Woman: Her Position, Influence and Achievement Throughout the Civilized World (1900) p. 415
Unsourced variants: Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God, and I shall never pay a penny of this unjust claim.
Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God, and I shall never pay a penny of this unjust fine.
Trial on the charge of illegal voting (1874)
Contexto: May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper — The Revolution — four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government; and I shall work on with might and main to pay every dollar of that honest debt, but not a penny shall go to this unjust claim. And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
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.
On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform (1860)
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
Contexto: 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.
“Failure is impossible”
- Susan B. Anthony”
At her eighty-sixth birthday celebration (15 February 1906)
Variante: Failure is impossible.
Fuente: History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
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)
Address given in towns of Ontario county, prior to her trial, quoted in "An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge of illegal voting, at the presidential election in Nov. 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of election by whom her vote was received." (1873) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/naw:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbnawsan2152div13)); also quoted in Great American Trials: 201 Compelling Courtroom Dramas (1994) by Edward W. Knappman, p. 167
Contexto: We no longer petition legislature or Congress to give of the right to vote, but appeal to women everywhere to exercise their too long neglected "citizen's right" … We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution the constitutions of the several states … propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights. … One half of the people of this Nation today are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write a new and just one. The women, dissatisfied as they are with this form of government, that enforces taxation without representation — that compels them to obey laws to which they have never given their consent — that imprisons and hangs them without a trial by a jury of their peers — that robs them, in marriage of the custody of their own persons, wages, and children—are this half of the people left wholly at the mercy of the other half.
