Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...

Anthony had accepted the help of a known racist alienating abolitionist members as well as AERA president Lucretia Mott. She and Matilda Joslyn Gage both made their first public speeches for women's rights at the convention. However revenue from non-patent-medicine advertisements was too low to cover costs.

Her birthday on February 15 is commemorated as Susan B. She traveled the United States and Europe and averaged 75 to 100 speeches per year. Anthony Day in the U.