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Article: One woman's voice: Susan B. Anthony inspired a national movement for equality.(Profiles in GREATNESS)(Biography)
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- May 1, 2009
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Susan B. Anthony did not play with toys or dolls as a child. Her strict Quaker upbringing and the influence of her abolitionist father inspired her to become a disciplined, reflective young woman with a deep belief in the civil rights of all men and women. She spoke out against what she saw as the ills of society, against the institution of slavery and in favor of a woman's voice in government through the right to vote.
"I do not demand equal pay for any women, save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women."
Born Susan Brownell Anthony in 1820 in ...