Women in Democracy

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Women in Democracy

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• John, in the new code of lawsremember the
  ladies Remember, all men would be tyrants if
  they couldWe will not hold ourselves bound by
  any laws in which we have no voice, no
  representation.

Abigail Adams, March 31, 1776
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• We hold these truths to be self-evident that
  all men and women are created equal

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, July 20, 1848
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• It will not do to say that it is out of woman's
  sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were
  so, then it should be also out of her sphere to
  submit to them.

Amelia Jenks Bloomer, 1856
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• The true republic Men their rights and nothing
  more women their rights and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony, January 1, 1868
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• "There is a great stir about colored men getting
  their rights, but not a word about the colored
  women and if colored men get their rights, and
  not colored women theirs, you see the colored men
  will be masters over the women."

Sojourner Truth, June, 1867
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• Women, idiots, felons, and lunatics are the
  only classes excluded from the exercise of the
  right of suffrage.

Lucy Stone, 1869
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• We representhalf the populationyet we are
  governed without our consent, compelled to pay
  taxes without appeal, and punished for violations
  of law without choice of judge or juror.

Susan B. Anthony, November 1872
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• Mr. President, Abraham Lincoln immortalized
  himself by the emancipation of four million
  slaves. Immortalize yourself by bringing about
  the complete emancipation of 36 million women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Theodore Roosevelt, 1902
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• This world taught woman nothing skillful and
  then said her work was valueless. It permitted
  her no opinions and said she did not know how to
  think. It forbade her to speak in public, and
  said the sex had no orators.

Carrie Chapman Catt, 1902
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• We claim in no uncertain voice that the time
  has come when women should have the one efficient
  tool with which to make for themselves decent and
  safe working conditions the ballot.

Mary Ware Dennett, March 1911
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• We women of America tell you that America is
  not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied
  the right to vote.

Alice Paul, circa 1915
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• Women have suffered agony of soul which you can
  never comprehend, that you and your daughters
  might inherit political freedom. That vote has
  been costly. Prize it!

Carrie Chapman Catt, August 26, 1920
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• Because I am a woman, I must make unusual
  efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say,
  She doesn't have what it takes. They will say,
  Women don't have what it takes.

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)
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• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by
  every experience in which you really stop to look
  fear in the face. You must do the thing which you
  think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt, 1960
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• They say women talk too much. If you have
  worked in Congress, you know that the filibuster
  was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)
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• We were idealists. We thought that when we got
  the vote the whole pattern of politics would be
  greatly improved and would be dominated by
  women.

Jessie Daniel Ames, 1965
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• That I am a national figure because I was the
  first person in 192 years to be at once a
  congressman, black and a woman proves, I think,
  that our society is not yet either just or free.

Shirley Chisholm, 1968
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• We are coming down from our pedestal and up
  from the laundry room. We want an equal share in
  government and we mean to get it.

Bella Abzug (1920-1998)
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• Of my two handicaps, being female put many
  more obstacles in my path than being black.

Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)
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• In politics if you want anything said, ask a
  man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher (1925 -- )
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• I will feel equality has arrived when we can
  elect to office women who are as incompetent as
  some of the men who are already there.

Maureen Reagan (1941-2001)
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• Women today often have very little appreciation
  for the real battles that took place to get women
  where they are today in this country. I don't
  know how much history young women today know
  about those battles.

Sandra Day OConnor, 2003
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• Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is
  never really won you earn it and win it in every
  generation.

Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
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• Women belong in the house... and the Senate.

Author unknown
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Women in Democracy

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THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
Working independently and with other civic
groups that share our interests, the League is
dedicated to helping citizens become informed and
active participants in government at all
levels.
Making democracy work!