Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902 (Social activist, abolitionist, author)
“What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?”
Anna Howard Shaw, 1847-1919 (Physician, Methodist minister, president
of the National Woman Suffrage Association)“You have put the ballot in the hands of your black men, thus making
them political superiors of white women. Never before in the history of the world
have men made former slaves the political masters of their former mistresses!”Frances Willard, 1839-1898 (Feminist lecturer, founder of the National
Council of Women, anti-child abuse activist)“Alien illiterates rule our cities today; the saloon is their palace,
and the toddy stick their scepter. The colored race multiplies like the locusts
of Egypt.”Carrie Chapman Catt, 1859-1947 (Founder of the League of Women Voters)
“White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.”
Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, 1835-1930 (First woman to serve in the
Senate)“I do not want to see a negro man walk to the polls and vote on who
should handle my tax money, while I myself cannot vote at all…When there is not
enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin; nor justice in
the court house to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put
a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue—-if it needs lynching to protect woman’s
dearest possession from the ravening human beasts—-then I say lynch, a thousand
times a week if necessary.”Excerpted from an article by Mallory Ortberg, The Toast
And here’s why people dont trust white feminism. Look at your roots!
These are the people they want black women to thank for our right to vote like we earned our right along with them. Hell we weren’t even part of the conversation.
if you aren’t challenging yourself and your beliefs, then you aren’t progressing.
This is why intersectional feminism is the only feminism for me.
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