Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Address to the American Equal Rights Association." 11 May 1866, New York, NY. Published in History of Woman Suffrage, edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., vol. 2, Fowler & Wells, 1882, p. 173.
The issue was the voting franchise for Negroes in the aftermath of the Civil War.
This was a classic debate over universal male suffrage. Rainborough had made a forceful argument for equality as a spokesperson for the Levellers in this famous debate. Ireton (See {619711}) eloquently gave the classic counter-argument that property owners had much more at stake and therefore should have much more of a say on governmental affairs. Early America actually sided with Ireton but modern America holds with Rainborough.
12 Indians had originally come to the new colony from Massachusetts. Williams admitted them with the full rights, including voting rights, of the colonists and opened the way for other Indians who wanted to join. Although a minister and theologian, Williams created the first jurisdiction in America where there was freedom of religion.
First female presidential candidate & first divorcee to run for that office. The half to which she was referring were the females, who by many narrow laws were unable to participate in the intellectual and political life of the country. At the time, women could not even vote.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-1800s. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's movement. She was also active in other social reform activities, especially abolitionism.
