American civil rights activist Susan B. Anthony was later arrested for voting “illegally” in the presidential election on this date in 1872. You are encouraged to vote on Tuesday after you listen to the suffragist song fest on Monday Crosscurrents 11/5 at 8 am.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY ON KRNN, 11/5: live onair link: http://www.krnn.org
Quotes:
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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.
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.
“Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.”
“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.”
Post script:
She was fined $100 though she never paid it.
The legal arguement on her behalf was based on the 14th and the 15th Amendment.
She pledged her vote for U.S. Grant.
Doggedly Yours 