Eloquent Advocate of the Women’s Suffrage Movement

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To commemorate the upcoming hundredth anniversary of the passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, Independent Women’s Forum will profile a leader of the fight for women’s suffrage each month ([link removed]) .

America’s suffrage leaders were women who recognized that the right to vote is essential to any meaningful form of citizenship. The 19th Amendment was ratified August 18, 1920.

Lucretia Mott, abolitionist, Quaker preacher, and suffragist was one of the most famous women of her day. She was a delegate to the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. It looms large in the history of suffrage because women delegates were not seated. Nevertheless, Mott became the “lioness” of the convention. There she also formed an alliance there with suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

“We would admit,” Mott later said, “all the difference that our great and beneficent Creator has made, in the relation of man and woman, nor would we seek to disturb this relation; but we deny that the present position of woman is her true sphere of usefulness: nor will she attain [her true]sphere until the disabilities and disadvantages, religious, civil, and social, which impede her progress, are removed.”

Mott was a woman with a remarkable presence. She was once engulfed by a furious mob, protesting her reform activities. She took the arm of one of the rowdies and directed him to escort her home. He led her to safety. “[T]here was a magic in her eloquence, a power in her calm, deliberate but pitiless logic that seemed to sway the minds of her hearers even against their will,” according to a reminiscence in a memorial book compiled by her friend and fellow Quaker, the poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

Lucretia Mott died in 1880, but we expect to hear her eloquence recalled as this year we move towards the centennial of women’s suffrage, a cause she embraced, at first with reservations, and then wholeheartedly.
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Charlotte Hays
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Independent Women's Forum
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