Pete Domenici Quotes
Susan B. Anthony need not hold us hostage forever.
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:
Pete V. Dominici, U.S. Senator (Republican, NM), June 1990
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She was the first presidential candidate's wife to admit such a radical position.
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.
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.
This statement is referring to the custom of women covering their eyes whenever a man who they did not know passed them. Turks did not ever use Burkas the way some other Muslim countries do, but they wore headscarves and covered their eyes when a strange man appeared. This was a shocking statement in a sexist Islamic culture. Although the process of modernization and reform in Turkey was relatively bloodless, Ataturk was prepared to and did use force to defend it. This and many others made the role of women not only uniquely equal in the Islamic world, but women were suddenly elevated to the level of most Western nations and in voting rights were ahead of most. He used his own family to set an example. See {584503}.
She was then an invalid trying to recover from the toll of all her work at the front lines of wars had taken. The men she had so helped, did not return the gesture when it came to voting, She did not live to see women get the vote in America.
Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici was an American attorney and politician from New Mexico. A Republican, Domenici served six terms in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009; he is the longest-tenured U.S. senator in the state's history. He was succeeded by Democratic Congressman Tom Udall.
