“Susan B. Anthony was a prominent women’s rights activist in 19th century America who initiated the women’s suffrage movement. She was active in the antislavery movement before the civil war.” Anthony was born on February 15, 1820. She was a teacher and a person who fought for women’s rights. Sadly, she died on March 13, 1906. In the newspaper it reports, that Anthony fought for women's suffrage, Temperance, and Abolition. Women back in the day’s didn’t had the rights to speak up for themselves and they were not recognized. They couldn’t vote, speak in public, and stand up for their rights. In addition, Susan B. Anthony fought for the women’s rights. Moreover, not only did she fought for the women’s suffrage movement, she is also against “The System of Slavery.” Anthony was a hardworking lady, she received liberal education and earned honors.
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Furthermore, Anthony said,”I merely wish to suggest a solution to the question you have been discussing. As long as society says that a woman has not brains enough to be a lawyer, a doctor, or a minister, yet may be a teacher do you not see, gentlemen, that every man of you who enters the profession of teaching puts himself on the level of his degraded class and tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman.”This shows that Anthony is speaking for her rights, and to clarify that not only men are intelligent, but women are intelligent as well too. Next, about ten years, Anthony went to different meetings to fight for women’s to speak in public and for women to get equal salary. In 1854 she helped over 5,000 married women to sign a petition paper so they could have the rights to control their salary and to be able to parent their own children equally with the
Furthermore, Anthony said,”I merely wish to suggest a solution to the question you have been discussing. As long as society says that a woman has not brains enough to be a lawyer, a doctor, or a minister, yet may be a teacher do you not see, gentlemen, that every man of you who enters the profession of teaching puts himself on the level of his degraded class and tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman.”This shows that Anthony is speaking for her rights, and to clarify that not only men are intelligent, but women are intelligent as well too. Next, about ten years, Anthony went to different meetings to fight for women’s to speak in public and for women to get equal salary. In 1854 she helped over 5,000 married women to sign a petition paper so they could have the rights to control their salary and to be able to parent their own children equally with the