Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
Kunin, Madeleine M. "Failure Is Possible If Women Don't Vote." HuffPost, 25 Aug. 2012.
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.
Introducing a bill to create a gold-colored dollar coin, stamped in copper, despite the failure of the Susan B. Anthony dollar piece in the late 1970s:
The Organization's Periodical. The statement was repeated several times in variation between 1890 and 1920. This organization was the national leader of similar organizations in over 20 States. Many notables were involved including Louis D. Brandeis, Francis Parkman and John Lowell.
It would be over 30 years more before American women could vote for President. Lockwood never could.
She was the first presidential candidate's wife to admit such a radical position.
None of the other parties had any women candidates. The Communists got a lot of votes from women whose only way they could support the participation of women in Italian politics, was to vote for a Communist candidate. And people who were opposed to non-traditional roles for women then conflated the feminists and the Communists just as had been done in America, England and many other countries and accused all feminists of being communists.
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.
Madeleine May Kunin (born September 28, 1933) is a Swiss-born American diplomat, author and politician. She served as the 77th Governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the Democratic Party. She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. She was Vermont's first and, to date, only female governor as well as the first Jewish governor of Vermont. She was also the first Jewish woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state. Kunin is currently a James Marsh Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont.
