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Susan B. Anthony, credited with leading the way for women voting, was arrested in 1872 for casting a ballot.
By the way, she proudly told people she voted a straight Republican ticket.
So you think equal/women's voting rights activism prior to 1920 was done by Republican women THEN who would agree with the Republican platform of TODAY???
The 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote was origianlly proposed in 1878 by Republican Senator Aaron Sargent. He was BFFs with Susan B. Anthony. She was also a Republican.
so much for this lie about liberal women getting other women the right to vote.
Well, "sweetie" maybe you have a point in that these writings by Anthony do match up with Republicans today. Yet in terms of women's right to vote, she was very liberal for her time.
"Some of Susan B. Anthony's writings were also quite racist by today's standards, particularly those from the period when she was angry that the Fifteenth Amendment wrote the word "male" into the constitution for the first time in permitting suffrage for freedmen. She sometimes argued that educated white women would be better voters than "ignorant" black men or immigrant men."
That was not the question. You are arguing that Susan B. Anthony was a Republican AND that she was a leader in the equal rights movement for women, aren't you?
Well, "sweetie" maybe you have a point in that these writings by Anthony do match up with Republicans today. Yet in terms of women's right to vote, she was very liberal for her time.
"Some of Susan B. Anthony's writings were also quite racist by today's standards, particularly those from the period when she was angry that the Fifteenth Amendment wrote the word "male" into the constitution for the first time in permitting suffrage for freedmen. She sometimes argued that educated white women would be better voters than "ignorant" black men or immigrant men."
That was not the question. You are arguing that Susan B. Anthony was a Republican AND that she was a leader in the equal rights movement for women, aren't you?
Yep. Only because people ignorant of history say liberal Democrats were at the front of women's sufferage, Which is clearly not the case.
Aaron Sargent, a Republican Senator, first introduced the 19th Amendment in 1878.
It took 40 years to get enough Democrats to approve it.
I always have thought liberals of today are racist too.
Something we agree on.
So now you agree that Anthony was a liberal. So there is no "lie" that liberal women indeed secured women's suffrage.
Unfortunately, her racists writings would agree with Republicans today.....AS if we all didn't know that the political parties have indeed changed over the years. There was definitely a time when Democrats were conservative and RACISTS.
So now you agree that Anthony was a liberal. So there is no "lie" that liberal women indeed secured women's suffrage.
Unfortunately, her racists writings would agree with Republicans today.....AS if we all didn't know that the political parties have indeed changed over the years. There was definitely a time when Democrats were conservative and RACISTS.
Yawn.
Here's the typical liberal crap I here over and over.
Liberals did this or that. Usually concerning race, women or child labor.
It's pointed out to them that liberals had nothing to do with said problem.
Then the liberal back tracks and says that the parties changed and republicans are racist.
It's very boring, childish and predictable. And a total lie.
Fact is that Republicans fought for the right for women to vote. Not Democrats.
A fact is a fact and you can't unchange a fact.
And anyone that thinks Mitt Romney is gonna outlaw abortion or birth control is a straight up dumb arse and should lose all voting rights for being a moron.
And I think people who don't understand that Republicans DO NOT have women's best interests at heart are either stupid or ignorant, or maybe both.
LOLs.
What did Republicans do to hurt women when Reagan was president? How about George Bush? How about Gearge W. Bush?
Oh, that's right. Nothing.
Who treats his wife better? Mit Romney or liberal icon Bill Clinton?
Who is the only Senator elected to office after causing the death of a woman? Liberal Ted Kennedy.
What party supports, even encourages, the killing of female fetuses? How many women have been denied the right to live because Democrats are pro-abortion? A couple million, I suspect.
But Romeny is going to outlaw birth control. LMFAO.
Yep. Only because people ignorant of history say liberal Democrats were at the front of women's sufferage, Which is clearly not the case.
Aaron Sargent, a Republican Senator, first introduced the 19th Amendment in 1878.
It took 40 years to get enough Democrats to approve it.
I really didn't specify a political party in re women's suffrage, I said LIBERAL WOMEN. W-O-M-E-N. Today, liberal women are DEMOCRATS, and TODAY, we contribute much to making and changing laws through the political process.
If you think your "knowledge" in re Sen. Sargent and very , very limited knowledge of Susan B. Anthony in any way represents all that happened during the years of struggle during the women's suffrage movement, you are very sadly mistaken or you have an extremely limited factual knowledge base about this topic.
"The turning point came in the late 1880s and early 1890s, when the nation experienced a surge of volunteerism among middle-class women—activists in progressive causes, members of women’s clubs and professional societies, temperance advocates, and participants in local civic and charity organizations. The determination of these women to expand their sphere of activities further outside the home helped legitimate the suffrage movement and provided new momentum for the NWSA and the AWSA. By 1890, seeking to capitalize on their newfound “constituency,” the two groups united to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).6 Led initially by Stanton and then by Anthony, the NAWSA began to draw on the support of women activists in organizations as diverse as the Women’s Trade Union League, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and the National Consumer’s League."
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Yet in terms of women's right to vote, she was very liberal for her time.
There was definitely a time when Democrats were conservative and RACISTS.
