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niyad

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Fri Sep 8, 2017, 01:10 PM Sep 2017

This is what Susan B. Anthony said, and it was in regards to the women's suffrage movement:



This is what Susan B. Anthony said, and it was in regards to the women's suffrage movement:

I have not allied and shall not ally myself to any part or any measure save the one of justice and equality for woman; but the time has come when I strike, and proclaim my contempt for the tricksters who put their political heel on the rights of women at the very moment when their help is most needed. I never, in my whole forty years’ work, so utterly repudiated any set of politicians as I do those Republicans of Kansas. When it is a mere matter of theory, a thousand miles from a practical question, they can resolve pretty words, but when the crucial moment comes they sacrifice us without conscience or honor. The hubbub with the Republicans show they have been struck in the right place. I was never surer of my position that no self-respecting woman would wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her political rights.

This quote comes from pg. 794 from the book, "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony," by Ida Husted Harper. It was published in 1898.
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This is what Susan B. Anthony said, and it was in regards to the women's suffrage movement: (Original Post) niyad Sep 2017 OP
None of this is new, when we ignore history and fail to examine its lessons, we Ninsianna Sep 2017 #1
so very true. I did not think, for example, that I would still be fighting this same damned niyad Sep 2017 #2
KR Me. Sep 2017 #3

Ninsianna

(1,349 posts)
1. None of this is new, when we ignore history and fail to examine its lessons, we
Fri Sep 8, 2017, 01:19 PM
Sep 2017

are doomed to repeat it.

niyad

(113,081 posts)
2. so very true. I did not think, for example, that I would still be fighting this same damned
Fri Sep 8, 2017, 01:20 PM
Sep 2017

battle nearly sixty years later.

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