“Mankind need only be aroused to thought to destroy forever all wrong customs.” -Antoinette Brown, 1853 Happy birthday to Antoinette Brown Blackwell, born on May 20, 1825. Antoinette Brown Blackwell was the first Protestant...
In 1852, Susan B. Anthony toured New York setting up local women’s temperance societies in several towns. A year later, she was dismayed to find that they had all closed due to lack of...
“If the Lord comes and burns – as you say he will – I am not going away. I am going to stay here and stand the fire like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.” -Sojourner...
“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.” -Susan B. Anthony, February...
“There is an odd side to all reformers, to all who are pursuing a new idea earnestly, that is very whimsical.” -Elizabeth Blackwell, 1895 Happy birthday to Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to...
“‘Agitate! Agitate!’ ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation — the one is life, the other death.” Ernestine Rose, March 28, 1860 Happy birthday to Ernestine Potowska Rose,...
“Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it cannot appreciate it.” –Lucretia Mott, 1849 Happy birthday to Lucretia Mott, born January 3, 1793. Lucretia Mott is one...
“We shall not be in our prime before fifty, and after that we shall be good for twenty years at least,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton told Susan B. Anthony in 1857. She was 41...
Many of the earliest prominent suffragists were New Yorkers: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Ernestine Rose and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, to name a few. However their efforts were most often rewarded...
“Resolved, that the ballot, alike unto the woman and the negro, means bread, education, intelligence, self-protection, self-reliance and self-respect.” -American Equal Rights Association (AERA), New York City Convention, Dec. 7, 1866 That’s what...
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but nouns, not mere appendages made to qualify somebody else, but independent, responsible workers in carrying forward the grand eternal plans in the redemption of...
Where can I buy the book? Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from Activists Who Built a Movement is coming soon. Pre-order on Amazon: Hardcover Paperback Large Print Edition Pre-order from your local bookseller:...
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