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Great women are
bold and courageous
women. Susan B
Anthony was brave
and courageous. She
registered and voted in
the 1872 election and
was arrested. It takes
boldness and courage to
do what she did.
Leadership 6
Lessons
from
the
Life
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of
Susan
B Anthony
Great women challenge
the status quo; they never
accept it. Susan B Anthony
could not understand why
women were second-class
citizens, and she did not
accept it. She challenged it
with everything in her and
everything and everyone at
her disposal and eventually,
she changed the status quo.
Great women fight for a
cause that is bigger than
themselves. For Susan,
it wasn’t about herself
or what she could gain
personally. She fought
for women who would
come after her. She
fought so that they
would be free. Every
time you go to vote as
a woman remember
that there were women
before you who fought for you to have that
right.
Great women stand up for others. A great
woman will be a voice for the oppressed
in society. She will speak up and speak out
in defense of others who cannot do so for
themselves. Not only was Susan fighting
for the rights of women, but she was also
known to speak in defense of women who
had been battered by their husbands and
sometimes offered them shelter when they
fled violence and abuse at home.
Great women view people and situations
differently. Susan Anthony supported a lot
of prostitutes. She did not condemn them
as society did; she did not judge them as
others did. She saw in them what others
failed to see and she reached out a hand
to help them beholding them as victims
seeking to escape from what she termed,
“the inequalities of the law which places all
womanhood at the mercy of manhood.”
Great women are liberators; they do not
sit around waiting for others to liberate
them from the challenges that life throws
at them. Instead, they confront the
challenges that face them and release not
only themselves but others with them.
Susan never lived to see the nineteenth
amendment, she never lived to see women
free to vote, but she fought in her lifetime
to make it happen. She battled to liberate
women.
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Great women are not
afraid to go where no
has gone before. Susan
was fighting a cause that
was not popular. She had
enemies; people mocked
her, some even asked her to
marry and have children,
but she was undeterred
and unfazed. If you are
going to achieve anything
significant, then you must
not be afraid to follow
the road less travelled or
the road that has never
been travelled for that
matter. Great women are
pathfinders, trailblazers,
and pacesetters. They are
leaders.
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Great women are change agents. Susan
brought change not only for the women in
her generation but for women that would
be born many generations later. No more
would a woman be unable to vote in the
United States of America.
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Great women act. Many people sit and
discuss what they would like to do. While
there is nothing wrong with talking,
without action things remain the same.
Susan brought about a change by acting
and not by talking. She did not only act, but
she got other women too to act. They were
able to achieve their desires because they
took action. Do you want a change? Take
action. This is what great women do.
Great women inspire others. Their story
gives hope and sends across a simple
message, one that says, if I can so can you.
Susan B Anthony inspired many with her
life. And today, many years after her death,
women inspired by her, continue to fight
for gender equality all over the world.
DOZ Magazine | March 2019