Abolitionist Quote by Susan B. Anthony Download Open image “Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.” — Susan B. Anthony ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abolitionist Learning Rights Women 's rights
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women. — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the… — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
In 1855, a former American slave remarked: "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is - tis… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is the history of progressive movements - such as the abolitionist campaign in Britain or the fight for African-American civil rights - in which the role of women has been diminished. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work,… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights. — Clemence Dane Copy Share Image
The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share
Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hopeand resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
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… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other,… — Samuel Gridley Howe Copy Share Image
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' -… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
