Frases de Susan B. Anthony

„Los hombres y mujeres del Norte son esclavistas, los del Sur son dueño de esclavos. La culpa descansa en el Norte igualmente que en el Sur.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

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.

„Las mujeres no deben depender de la protección de un hombre, sino que deben aprender a protegerse.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

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.

„Cuanto mayor soy, más poder tengo para ayudar al mundo; soy como una bola de nieve, cuanto más lejos estoy rodando, más gano.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

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.

„Quiero que entiendas que nunca podría haber hecho el trabajo si no hubiera tenido a esta mujer a mi mano derecha.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

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.

„Haced entender a vuestros empleadores que estais a su servicio como trabajadoras no como mujeres.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

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.

„I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely… for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Autumn 1872)

„I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

„There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

„I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

„The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

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.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

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.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

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.

„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?“

—  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)

„No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

„Failure is impossible”
- Susan B. Anthony“

—  Susan B. Anthony

At her eighty-sixth birthday celebration (15 February 1906)
Variante: Failure is impossible.
Fuente: History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I

„There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

„Independence is happiness.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

„Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.“

—  Susan B. Anthony

„… the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.“

—  Susan B. Anthony