Lucretia Mott
No violation escaped Mott’s advocacy; she was not only an ardent abolitionist and woman’s rights activist, she was also a pacifist and worked for the Peace Idea.
“In every reform she stood in the forefront of the battle. Whenever there was a trying emergency to be met you could rely on Lucretia Mott.” |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
About her marriage vows:
“I obstinately refused to obey one with whom I supposed I was entering into an equal relationship.” |
Declaration number nine was a simple statement: “Resolved. That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.”
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Newspaper critics often ridiculed her. The New York World reported, “Susan is lean, cadaverous and intellectual, with the proportions of a file and the voice of a hurdy-gurdy.” |
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Adelaide Johnson proclaimed Susan B. Anthony to be “the one pre-eminent woman who changed the age-old world in a generation.”
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“I am the better writer,” claimed Stanton, “she the better critic. She supplied the facts and statistics, I the philosophy and rhetoric… Our speeches may be considered the united product of our two brains.” |
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World Fair, 1893 Hearty applause greeted Mrs. Bertha Palmer, who spoke on the work of the Board of Lady Managers and congratulated women on their recognition on this extraordinary occasion. She said: "Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact the General Government has just discovered women." |
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When Adelaide Johnson married in 1896, her husband took her last name. |
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Adelaide Johnson
“I have always wondered why a girl with the sweet name of Rose would be willing to change it to Hogg,” said Adelaide Johnson.
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We march in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded. |
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March 3, 1913 The purpose of the procession was to demand a federal suffrage amendment and to ask Congress and the Administration to do their part in removing this “ancient” sex discrimination. The mob overtook the marchers. |
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Inez Milholland rode in the May 3 parade in New York. The event was entirely too peaceful and proper to suit some of the younger suffragists. Rosalie Jones said with a sigh: “Parades aren’t what they used to be, girls. We’ll have to think up something more thrilling next time.” |
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Inez Milholland
“Women of the West, Let no party, whatsoever its name, dare to slur the demands of women…. Let them know that women stand by women.” 
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On October 22, 1916, while speaking in Los Angeles, Inez Milholland directed a question at Woodrow Wilson: "Mr. President how long must women wait for liberty?" As the words filled the air, she collapsed on the stage. Milholland died at the age of 30. Alice Paul visited the grave of Inez in Lewis, NY, in 1924. 
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Members of the National Woman's Party picketed the White House in 1917. Many were arrested and sentenced to jail time. Many of the women were mistreated by prison guards. The air was so stale that the women prisoners threw things until they broke windows to let in fresh air. Their meals were some bread, occasionally some molasses, a little almost-raw salt pork, and “some sort of liquid---I am not sure whether it was coffee or soup,” said Paul. |
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1920 Tennessee becomes the thirty-sixth state to ratify suffrage. “[Women] will decide what part they
will play in the nation’s affairs and whether a new era has begun --- an era of petticoat political power.” |