Extended excerpt [Letter to friend Dr. Sarah R. Dolley]:

“A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people. While we have class and sectarian schools the parties supporting them will not give their fullest aid toward building up the public school system. If all of the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel found to concentrate their money and energies on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. To be a success a republic must have a homogeneous people, and to do this it must have homogeneous schools. You may grow more and more in favor of sectarian schools, as you say, but I grow more and more opposed to them.” (p. 1204)

Source note: Sarah Read Dolley (1829-1909) was the first female physician to practice in Rochester, New York, and one of the first women to receive a medical degree in the United States.

[Source: “Dr. Sarah Read Adamson Dolley” (2005) ‘Changing the Face of Medicine,’ U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health; online via cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov]

Source link [Featured source]: Letter to Sarah R. Dolley, excerpt in The Life and Works of Susan B. Anthony (1908) Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=iooEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1204&lpg=PA1204&dq=A+republican+government

Source link [Source note]: “Dr. Sarah Read Adamson Dolley” (2005) online via National Institutes of Health: https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_87.html

Extended excerpt: “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, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” (p. 197)

Source link: The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many of Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years, Vol. I (1898) Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=SYoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA197&dq=Cautious,+careful+people,+always+casting

Extended excerpt: [Newspaper interview]

Question: “Then you don’t find life tiresome?”

Anthony: “O, mercy, no! I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. I dread the thought of being enfeebled. 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.” (p. 859)

Source link: The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many of Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years, Vol. II (1898) Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=NfYbAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA859&lpg=PA859&dq=The+older+I+get,+the+greater+power+I+seem+to+have+to+help+the+world

Extended excerpt: [Magazine essay. In the introduction, Anthony wrote: “A request from The Arena to state what really has come of our half-century of agitation, and what is sure to come in the near future, will be used as the basis of this article.” (p. 901)]

“The literary woman placed herself forever beyond the pale of marriage, for no man would be brave enough to take for a wife a creature who had thus unsexed herself. If she could write, it followed without question that she could not cook, sew, manage a house, or bring up children, and her name in connection suggested at once an appalling scene of disorder and discomfort. This belief prevailed, to a great extent, in regard to a woman who attempted any vocation outside of domestic service, that by so doing she became at once and forever unfitted for the duties of wife and mother. Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman’s garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. This idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.”

(pp. 902- 903)

Source link: The Arena magazine, Vol. XVII (1897) online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=60MZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA903&dq=Of+all+the+old+prejudices+that+cling+to+the+hem

Extended excerpt:

“The one distinct feature of our association [The National American Woman Suffrage Association] has been the right of individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at each step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of sentiments which differed from those held by the majority. The religious persecution of the ages has been carried on under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice that it always coincides with their own desires. All the way along the history of our movement there has been this same contest on account of religious theories. Forty years ago one of our noblest men said to me, “You would better never hold another convention than allow Ernestine L. Rose on your platform;” because that eloquent woman, who ever stood for justice and freedom, did not believe in the plenary inspiration of the Bible. Did we banish Mrs. Rose? No, indeed!

Ever new generation of converts threshes over the same old straw. The point is whether you will sit in judgment on one who questions the divine inspiration of certain passages in the Bible derogatory to women. If Mrs. Stanton had written approvingly of these passages you would not have brought in this resolution for fear the cause might be injured among the liberals in religion. In other words, if she had written your views, you would not have considered a resolution necessary. To pass this one is to set back the hands on the dial of reform.” (pp. 853-854)

Source link: The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many of Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years, Vol. II (1898) Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=ADgQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA853&dq=The+religious+persecution+of+the+ages

Extended excerpt: “The motto of The Revolution, “The True Republic – Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less,” was succeeded by “What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” It was transformed into a literary and society journal, established in elegant headquarters at Brooklyn, inaugurated with a fashionable reception, and conducted by Mrs. Bullard for eighteen months, when she tired of it, or her father tired of advancing money, and it passed into other hands.” (p. 363)

Extended excerpt – Image: [Text as it appeared under the banner title of Anthony’s newspaper, The Revolution] “Principle, Not Policy: Justice, Not Favors – Men, Their Rights and Nothing More; Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less.”

Source link: [Image] The Revolution (18 June 1868) front page, Accessible Archives: http://www.accessible-archives.com/collections/the-revolution/

Source link: [Featured text] The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many of Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years, Vol. I (1898) Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=ZUsvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA363&lpg=PA363&dq=The+true+republic:+men,+their+rights+and+nothing+more;+women,+their+rights+and+nothing+less 

Source link: [Image of motto as it appeared on Anthony’s paper]

The Revolution (18 June 1868) front page, Accessible Archives: http://www.accessible-archives.com/collections/the-revolution/