Susan B. Anthony quotes for UPSC

8 sourced quotes by Susan B. Anthony on women & gender, courage, justice & rule of law, equality & social justice, resilience & perseverance, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.

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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

— Susan B. AnthonyOn the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform (1860)

Use itGS4 on moral courage: reformers must risk reputation; careful conformists change nothing.

Courage LeadershipEssayGS4

I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law.

— Susan B. AnthonyAccount of Matilda Joslyn Gage (June 20, 1873) to Kansas Leavenworth Times (July 3, 1873)

Use itEssay on justice vs mercy: demand justice, not clemency, when rights are denied.

Justice & Rule of Law CourageEssayGS2

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

— Susan B. AnthonyWoman's Rights to the Suffrage Speech (1873)

Use itGS2: discriminatory laws against women void like racial ones; link to Article 14-15.

Equality & Social Justice Women & GenderEssayGS2

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

— Susan B. AnthonySpeech in San Francisco (July 1871)

Use itEssay on women's empowerment: self-reliance over paternalistic protection.

Women & GenderEssayGS1

The fact is women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize.

— Susan B. AnthonyQuoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657

Use itGS1 on patriarchy: internalised subordination is the deepest servitude.

Women & Gender Mind & Self-awarenessEssayGS1

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

— Susan B. AnthonyThe Revolution, Women's Suffrage Newspaper (8 October 1868)

Use itGS1 on gender pay gap: equal pay for equal work, as workers not as women.

Women & Gender Equality & Social JusticeEssayGS1GS2

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

— Susan B. AnthonySpeech on Social Purity (Spring 1875)

Use itGS1 on marriage and women's agency: equal power to shape life's circumstances.

Women & Gender Relationships & FriendshipEssayGS1

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. AnthonyThe Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years, Volu

Use itLife: experience compounds impact with age, like a rolling snowball.

Resilience & Perseverance Time & ChangeEssayLife