Failure Is Impossible were the last words Susan B. Anthony spoke in public. She was a woman of remarkable courage and intellect who devoted her life's work to the pursuit of social justice and a woman's right to vote.
Amazingly, she was the first woman to register and place a vote as a citizen of the United States and was subsequently arrested as a result of her actions, charged with illegal voting.
She died 120 years ago this week, and after each presidential election, her gravestone is adorned with "I Voted" stickers.
Here are a few other powerful quotes from her life...
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. This served as the masthead for her newspaper, The Revolution.
Independence is happiness. A short but definitive statement found in many of her writings.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. A core tenet of her argument for female suffrage.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. Her strategy for achieving social and political reform.
Selected excerpt(s) and linked article courtesy of Wikipedia, The History Channel
Royalty-free photos courtesy of Google's Gemini
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