Louise Slaughter Quotes
Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
United States, Congress, House. Representative Slaughter speaking in honor of Susan B. Anthony. Congressional Record, Government Printing Office, 15 Feb. 2006.
The editorial was in support of women’s suffrage—the right to vote which at the time women did not have in Britain. Women were very active in protests and demonstrations. Tactics sometimes involved civil disobedience and chaining themselves to public buildings. It was the civil disobedience and disruptions that the newspaper referred to as the “follies and excesses.” In retrospect today, it is amazing how threatened the society felt and how they reacted to the “threat” of females voting. It does however give us a perspective on those contemporary societies which restrict women’s voting rights.
The speaker predicted the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, but was off by three years.
She was the first presidential candidate's wife to admit such a radical position.
Woodrow Wilson had just finished speaking to the convention – see {638532}. This statement was thought be some to be insulting to the President who said he favored the right of women to vote, but did very little if anything to make that happen. Although Shaw was an ordained Methodist Minister, the Methodist Episcopal Church refused to allow her to preach because of her suffrage views.
Referring to new laws that would be necessary after a proposed Declaration of Independence:
The classification of women with criminals and lunatics referred to the fact that at this time Women could not vote in New Zealand or any other nation of the world. The following year, much as a result of her efforts, New Zealand became the first country in the world to allow women to vote.
Dorothy Louise Slaughter née McIntosh was an American politician elected to sixteen terms as a United States Representative from New York, serving from 1987 until her death in 2018. She served as the Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation for the last few terms as Congresswoman before her death.
