February 15
1820 B. Susan B.. Anthony
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Working closely with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony was a primary organizer, speaker, and writer for the 19th century women's rights movement in the United States, especially the first phases of the long struggle for women's vote, the women's suffrage movement or woman suffrage movement

QUOTES
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

Failure is impossible.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

 I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

 I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

 I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

 I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

 I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

 I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

 Reflection
It has been 190 years since Susan's birth.
Every year there as been some miniscule progress
but we are far from equality yet today.
I pray that the model, the prayer and the power
of Mary, the Mother of God
will accomplish this in our lifetime--
without a lot of violence. crsr