Kate Sheppard Quotes
All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.
Katherine Wilson Sheppard, 1847–1934, (Catherine Wilson Malcolm), New Zealand Reformer & Suffragette, Quoted in by Melanie M. Hughes, Women, Politics, And Power : A Global Perspective, 2007
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This was a very courageous speech for the President to give. Senator Hubert Humphrey had proposed civil rights legislation. At the time most of the racial conservative members of Congress were Democrats and not Republicans as they would become after Civil Rights legislation actually passed in 1964. There was little possibility that the civil rights law would pass as the Southern Democrats could filibuster it in the Senate. None the less Truman supported the legislation and the principle of equal rights despite the fact that he was a Southerner and he knew he would lose the support of the conservative wing of his party.
Warren a Republican from California who knew Palmer for years, stood up, put his arm around Palmer and told him, “Kyle, you and I will always be friends” and walked out.
The following year, there were calls for boycotts of the racist 1936 German views that would prevail at the Olympics to be held in Berlin. So Brundage changed his tune and tried to keep politics out of the Olympics. But race was already injected by German laws and policies and the U. S. practices in the South. Brundage, anti-Semitic himself, was worried that if boycotts of the Berlin Olympics were successful, their might be international or even national boycotts of segregated sporting events in the American south. So he argued to keep politics and boycotts out of the Olympics (See {625799}.) The U. S. Delegate to the International Olympic Committee.
He was reacting to the racial claims of Adolph Hitler in German
Katherine Wilson Sheppard (née Catherine Wilson Malcolm; 10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand and the country's most famous suffragist. Born in Liverpool, England, she emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1868. There she became an active member of various religious and social organisations, including the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand (WCTU NZ). In 1887 she was appointed the WCTU NZ's National Superintendent for Franchise and Legislation, a position she used to advance the cause of women's suffrage in New Zealand.
