Susan B. Anthony
Women's suffrage leader · 1820–1906
Anthony was a central organiser of the American women's suffrage movement and co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. She was arrested for voting in 1872 and campaigned for decades for a constitutional amendment granting women the vote.
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Estimated from their documented words and actions. A simplification, not a verdict.
She pursued women's suffrage through a federal constitutional amendment rather than state-by-state change alone.
Extending the vote to women was her life's work; she was prosecuted for casting a ballot in 1872.
She broke the law to make a point about voting rights but focused on suffrage rather than broader civil liberties.
She helped found the International Council of Women and worked with suffragists abroad.
Raised a Quaker, she was not a prominent voice on war; no strong recorded view.
She objected to immigrant men gaining the vote ahead of native-born women, but had no clear immigration programme.
She supported women's economic independence and worked with early labour organisations on equal pay.
No strong recorded view on economic planning.
No strong recorded view on trade.
She criticised churches for teaching women's subordination and kept her activism largely non-sectarian.
By the standards of her time she was strongly progressive on women's legal and political rights.
No strong recorded view on technology.