What Susan B. Anthony thinks about gender equality
American women's suffrage leader (1820 to 1906).
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5 dated positions, c. 1873, in their own words. Our reading of what Susan B. Anthony has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThe Union was formed by the whole people, women as well as men, not only by white or male citizens
Their wordsIt was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.
↗On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech)en.wikisource.org All 8 from this book
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Their wordsFor any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land.
↗On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech)en.wikisource.org All 8 from this book
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Their wordsAn oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every home of the nation.
↗On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech)en.wikisource.org All 8 from this book
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Their wordsBeing persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
↗On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech)en.wikisource.org All 8 from this book
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Their wordsHence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Negroes.
↗On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech)en.wikisource.org All 8 from this book