Antoinette Brown Blackwell Quotes
We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
Blackwell, Antoinette Brown. Address at the National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention, 1906. Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, NAWSA, 1906.
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.
This was de facto Equal Rights legislation.
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:
She was the first presidential candidate's wife to admit such a radical position.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Some men in the audience hissed as she took the podium.
Antoinette Louisa Brown, later Antoinette Brown Blackwell, was the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States. She was a well-versed public speaker on the paramount issues of her time and distinguished herself from her contemporaries with her use of religious faith in her efforts to expand women's rights.
