Women Need to Vote This Year in the United States
Quotes from the Suffrage Movement
Now that as a result of the agitation for equality of chances, and through the invention of machinery, there has come a great revolution in the world of economics, so that wherever a man may go to earn and honest dollar a woman may go also, there is no escape from the conclusion that she must be clothed with equal power to protect herself. That power is the ballot, the symbol of freedom and equality, without which no citizen is sure of keeping even that which he hath, much less getting what he hath not.
-Susan B. Anthony, from the speech "Women Wants Bread, not the Ballot", in the 1870's
I wanted to tell you a mite about women's rights, and so I came out and said so. I am sittin' among you to watch and every once in a while I will come out and tell you what time of night it is.
-Sojourner Truth, from 1853 speech, "What Time of Night It Is"
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation in such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.....
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of men towards women, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this let factcs be submitted to a candid world:
He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.
He has compelled her to submit to laws, the formation of which she had no choice.
...Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.
He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead...........
-from "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls", Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, et al; presented at the Seneca Falls Convention
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