Women’s Suffrage – Failure Is Impossible

Failure Is Impossible
Women’s First Civil Rights Movement

“Failure Is Impossible” was one of Susan B. Anthony’s many wise and eloquent quotes that encouraged women to champion the important work of demanding their right to vote. She said it on her last birthday, and it soon became the watchword of the women’s suffrage movement.

Susan B. Anthony lived from 1820 to 1906, and dedicate her life to a broad range of issues: abolition, education reform, labor reform, temperance, women’s suffrage, women’s marriage rights, equal opportunity, women’s financial independence, and dress reform.

In 1894, Anthony stated, “We shall someday be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people think that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”

This artwork celebrates Anthony’s fight for women’s suffrage, which culminated in the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920.

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