Vision

But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love and live. Chained by their attitudes they are slave; they have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is free.

Vision sees a path when there is none. For more than forty years, one woman believed that all of America would be better off if women could vote. Some laughed at her, others tried to ignore her, still others threw her in jail. But Susan B. Anthony had a dream. She could see a brighter world, and her words implanted a vision in other hearts. Fourteen years after her death, the Nineteenth Amendment was signed, and women gained the right to vote.

Vision is a single candle lit on a dark night. One spark ignites in another heart, then another, then another -- light added to light until dark is diminished. Vision is the ability to see with the heart what no one can see with the eye.

Vision plus hard work equals achievement. ~ Pam Farrel



Susan Brownell Anthony (15 February 1820 – 13 March 1906) Reformer, Woman-Suffrage Leader


Susan B. Anthony was a prominent, independent and well-educated American civil rights leader who was raised in New York as a Quaker. Early in her life she developed a sense of justice and moral zeal. She taught for a few years at a Quaker seminary and from there became a headmistress at a women's division of a school.



Susan B. Anthony played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to secure women's suffrage in the United States. She traveled thousands of miles throughout the United States and Europe, and gave 75 to 100 speeches per year on women's rights for some 45 years. Through Anthony's determined work, many professional fields became open to women by the end of the nineteenth century. Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, New York, in her house on Madison Street on March 13, 1906, and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.



Susan B. Anthony died on 13 March 1906 at the age of 86. Her conscious thoughts during her last and brief illness were not of religion. She pled with all to continue her work and right before death remarked, (holding up her hand and measuring a little space on one finger), "Just think of it, I have been striving for over sixty years for a little bit of justice no bigger than that, and yet I must die without obtaining it. Oh, it seems so cruel!"