Harper (1898–1908), Vol. 1, p. 261. Anthony's words here have been misquoted in increasingly elaborate ways. Alma Lutz's biography (1959, p. 120) converted Harper's words into a direct quote by Anthony but made no other changes: "I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask for the ballot for the black man and not for woman." Eleanor Flexner's Century of Struggle (1959, pp. 137–138) changed "hand" to "arm" and made other changes, reporting that Anthony said, "I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work for or demand the ballot for the Negro and not woman."
Paul Finkelman's African-Americans and the Right To Vote (1992, p. 129) quoted Anthony as saying, "I swear that I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work for or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman." The American Pageant, a textbook by David M. Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen, reported (2012, p. 477) that Anthony held out her arm and said, "Look at this, all of you. And hear me swear that I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work for or demand the ballot for the negro and not the woman." Kennedy and Cohen placed this supposed quote by Anthony in the context of her anger at the exclusion of women from the 14th Amendment rather than, as Harper originally reported, at being told that she should work for suffrage only for black men, not for both women and blacks.
Stanton, Anthony, Gage (1881–1922), Vol. 2, p. 635.
Stanton, Anthony, Gage, Harper (1881–1922), Vol. 2, p. 384. Stone is speaking here during the final AERA convention in 1869. Support for the amendment did not necessarily mean that all AWSA members were free from the racial presumptions of that era. Henry Blackwell, Lucy Stone's husband and a prominent AWSA member, published an open letter to Southern legislatures assuring them that if they allowed both blacks and women to vote, "the political supremacy of your white race will remain unchanged" and that "the black race would gravitate by the law of nature toward the tropics". See Henry B. Blackwell (January 15, 1867). "What the South can do". An American Time Capsule. Library of Congress. Retrieved January 22, 2014. Cited in Dudden (2011), p. 93.
Stanton, Anthony, Gage, Harper (1881–1922), Vol. 4, pp. 232–233. The official who revealed this information was Rachel Foster Avery, an associate of Anthony who served on the organizing committee for the women's congress.
Shaw, Anna Howard (1915). The Story of a Pioneer, p. 207. New York: Harper and Brothers. Instead of applauding, women of that era sometimes waved white handkerchiefs to show approval, a practice known as the Chautauqua salute. See Sherr (1995), p. 308.
Stanton, Anthony, Gage, Harper (1881–1922), Vol. 6,
pp. 805–811.
Harper (1898–1908), Vol. 3, p. 1409. According to Sherr (1995), p. 367, footnote 324, a variation of this statement appeared in several newspapers, but it also ends with "Failure is impossible".
Stanton, Anthony, Gage (1881–1922), Vol. 4, p. 223
Stanton, Anthony, Gage (1881–1922), Vol. 4, pp. 154–155.
Channing wrote the call for the Women's Rights Convention that Anthony organized in Rochester in 1853 and playing a leading role in it. He wrote an appeal that Anthony circulated as part of her women's suffrage work. See Harper (1898–1908), Vol. 1, pp. 104, 110.
Bly, Nellie (February 2, 1896). "Champion of Her Sex – Miss Susan B. Anthony Tells the Story of Her Remarkable Life to 'Nellie Bly'". The World. p. 10. This interview is reprinted along with extensive notes in Gordon (2013) pp. 24–40.
Hugh Barbour, Christopher Densmore, Elizabeth H. Moger, Nancy C. Sorel, Alson D. Van Wagner, Arthur J. Worrall, ed. (1995). Quaker Crosscurrents: Three Hundred Years of Friends in the New York Yearly Meetings, pp. 135–135. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 135. ISBN0-8156-2664-9.
Harper (1898–1908), Vol. 1, p. 261. Anthony's words here have been misquoted in increasingly elaborate ways. Alma Lutz's biography (1959, p. 120) converted Harper's words into a direct quote by Anthony but made no other changes: "I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask for the ballot for the black man and not for woman." Eleanor Flexner's Century of Struggle (1959, pp. 137–138) changed "hand" to "arm" and made other changes, reporting that Anthony said, "I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work for or demand the ballot for the Negro and not woman."
Paul Finkelman's African-Americans and the Right To Vote (1992, p. 129) quoted Anthony as saying, "I swear that I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work for or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman." The American Pageant, a textbook by David M. Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen, reported (2012, p. 477) that Anthony held out her arm and said, "Look at this, all of you. And hear me swear that I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work for or demand the ballot for the negro and not the woman." Kennedy and Cohen placed this supposed quote by Anthony in the context of her anger at the exclusion of women from the 14th Amendment rather than, as Harper originally reported, at being told that she should work for suffrage only for black men, not for both women and blacks.
"The Working Women's Association", The Revolution, November 5, 1868, p. 280. Quoted in Rakow and Kramarae eds. (2001), p. 106.
The role of The Revolution during the developing split in the women's movement is discussed in chapters 6 and 7 of Dudden (2011). An example of its use to support their wing of the movement is on p. 164.
Cullen-DuPont (2000) p. 115History of Woman Suffrage.
Tetrault (2014), pp. 125–140. Tetrault says she describes the Seneca Falls story as a "myth" not to indicate that it is false but in the technical sense of "a venerated and celebrated story used to give meaning to the world." See Tetrault (2014), p. 5.
Sewall, May Wright, editor (1894). The World's Congress of Representative Women. New York: Rand, McNally, pp. 46–48Bertha Palmer was in charge of women's activities at the Exposition. She appointed May Wright Sewall as chair and Rachel Foster Avery as secretary of the organizing committee for the women's congress; both were associates of Anthony.
Susan B. Anthony (May 27, 1893), "The Moral Leadership of the Religious Press", in Freedom of Religion: Foundational Documents and Historical Arguments, by Stephen A. Smith, 2019, Oxbridge Research Associates, pp. 584–585. Unitarianism, the belief that God is one person, contrasts with Trinitarianism, the traditional Christian belief that God is three persons in one, with Jesus being one of those three. Elias Hicks, after whom the Hicksites were named, taught that Jesus was not God but had achieved a divine state through obedience to the Inner Light.
“Call to Congregational Friends Meeting", Frederick Douglass’ Paper, May 26, 1854, reprinted in Judith Wellman and others, "1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse, Farmington, New York, Historic Structure Report", 2017, p. 100Archived March 26, 2023, at the Wayback Machine
Gordon (2005), pp. 18–19. This article points out that Supreme Court rulings did not establish the connection between citizenship and voting rights until the mid-twentieth century.
Stanton, Anthony, Gage, Harper (1881–1922), Vol. 2, p. 384. Stone is speaking here during the final AERA convention in 1869. Support for the amendment did not necessarily mean that all AWSA members were free from the racial presumptions of that era. Henry Blackwell, Lucy Stone's husband and a prominent AWSA member, published an open letter to Southern legislatures assuring them that if they allowed both blacks and women to vote, "the political supremacy of your white race will remain unchanged" and that "the black race would gravitate by the law of nature toward the tropics". See Henry B. Blackwell (January 15, 1867). "What the South can do". An American Time Capsule. Library of Congress. Retrieved January 22, 2014. Cited in Dudden (2011), p. 93.
Judith E. Harper. "Biography". Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Public Broadcasting System. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
William H. Pease (Spring 1954). "William Channing Gannett: Two Episodes". University of Rochester Library Bulletin, Volume IX, Number 3. University of Rochester. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
"Hester Jeffrey". Western New York Suffragists. Rochester Regional Library Council. Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
"Making It Happen" by Ann D. Gordon in "Project News: Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony," Fall 2012, p. 5. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle newspaper, August 1907, as quoted in 17 Madison Street, the newsletter of the Susan B. Anthony Museum and House, August 2014Archived November 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, p. 2.
Matthews, Holly. "Susan B. Anthony Day". TeacherLINK @ Utah State University. Archived from the original on November 12, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
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Dean Grodzins. "Theodore Parker". Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography. Unitarian Universalist Association. Archived from the original on December 12, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017. During Anthony's lifetime, the Unitarian denomination transformed from one based on Unitarian Christianity to one that was not based on any creed. Theodore Parker and William Channing Gannett played important roles in this transformation.
"History". International Council of Women. Archived from the original on August 25, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
"Women's Educational and Industrial Union". Western New York Suffragists: Biographies and Images. Rochester Regional Council Library. 2000. Archived from the original on November 24, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
“Call to Congregational Friends Meeting", Frederick Douglass’ Paper, May 26, 1854, reprinted in Judith Wellman and others, "1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse, Farmington, New York, Historic Structure Report", 2017, p. 100Archived March 26, 2023, at the Wayback Machine
Dean Grodzins. "Theodore Parker". Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography. Unitarian Universalist Association. Archived from the original on December 12, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017. During Anthony's lifetime, the Unitarian denomination transformed from one based on Unitarian Christianity to one that was not based on any creed. Theodore Parker and William Channing Gannett played important roles in this transformation.
"Hester Jeffrey". Western New York Suffragists. Rochester Regional Library Council. Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle newspaper, August 1907, as quoted in 17 Madison Street, the newsletter of the Susan B. Anthony Museum and House, August 2014Archived November 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, p. 2.
Matthews, Holly. "Susan B. Anthony Day". TeacherLINK @ Utah State University. Archived from the original on November 12, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
"Women's Educational and Industrial Union". Western New York Suffragists: Biographies and Images. Rochester Regional Council Library. 2000. Archived from the original on November 24, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
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"What is IAW". International Alliance of Women. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
