"Are you sure you don't need men?"
Jake Rattlesnake
Angelos Agathangelou: A correction, as the author Jake started by praising first wave feminism, I should point out that first wave feminists in the US did not only wanted freedom, equality, dignity for all, they were both female and white supremacists. They saw themselves as superior to both their "White Saxon fathers" and the "dark-faced mobs."
"Alien illiterates rule our cities today; the saloon is their palace, and the toddy stick their scepter. The coloured race multiplies like the locusts of Egypt." "Better whiskey and more of it’ is the rallying cry of great, dark-faced mobs." "The safety of [white] women, of childhood, of the home is menaced in a thousand localities." Said Suffragist Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard...
"I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman." "Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the Negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sex and take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton." Said Suffragist Susan Brownell Anthony.
"We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men." "What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?" Said Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt said, "White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage."
Suffragist Laura Clay said, "The white men, reinforced by the educated white women, could ‘snow under’ the Negro vote in every State, and the white race would maintain its supremacy without corrupting or intimidating the Negroes."
Suffragist Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton said, "I do not want to see a negro man walk to the polls and vote on who should handle my tax money, while I myself cannot vote at all…When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin; nor justice in the court house to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue—if it needs lynching to protect woman’s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts—then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary."
Suffragist Belle Kearney said, "The enfranchisement of women would insure immediate and durable white supremacy, honestly attained; for, upon unquestionable authority, it is stated that “in every Southern State but one, there are more educated women than all the illiterate voters, white and black, native and foreign, combined.” As you probably know, of all the women in the South who can read and write, ten out of every eleven are white. When it comes to the proportion of property between the races, that of the white outweighs that of the black immeasurably. The South is slow to grasp the great fact that the enfranchisement of women would settle the race question in politics."
Suffragist Anna Howard Shaw said, "You have put the ballot in the hands of your black men, thus making them political superiors of white women. Never before in the history of the world have men made former slaves the political masters of their former mistresses!"
Suffragist Alva Belmont said, "Henceforth women are to be dictators. … The time has come to make this world muddle men have created and strive to turn it into an ordered, peaceful, happy abiding place for humanity."



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