Suffragists and Key Dates in History

Suffragists and Key Dates

• Lucretia Coffin Mott: Born January 3, 1793, died November 11, 1880.
• Sojourner Truth: c. 1797 – November 26, 1883.
• Abby Kelly Foster: January 15, 1811 – January 14, 1887.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902.
• Lucy Stone: August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893.
• Julia Ward Howe: May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910.
• Susan B. Anthony: February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906.
• Isabella Beecher Hooker: February 22, 1822 – January 25, 1907.
• Mary Ann Shadd Cary: October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893.
• Matilda Joslyn Gage: March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898.
• Frances Willard: February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919.
• Anna Howard Shaw: September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898.
• Carrie Chapman Catt: January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947.
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett: July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931.
• Mary Church Terrell: September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954.
• Lucy Burns: July 28, 1879 – December 22, 1966.
• Jeanette Rankin: June 11, 1880 – May 13, 1973.
• Adelina Otero-Warren: October 23, 1881 – January 23, 1965.
• Alice Paul: January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977.

Quotes and Ideas

• Lucretia Coffin Mott: "I am no advocate of passivity... but women will get their rights anyway."

• Sojourner Truth: "Bloody feet, sisters, have worn smooth the path by which you come up hither."

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Lucy Stone/etc. "The right is ours, have it we must, use it we will. ...Leave women, then, to find their sphere... Make your protest against tyranny, meanness, and injustice"

• Susan B Anthony:  "Men, their rights, and nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less."

• Isabella Beecher Hooker: "Can anything be plainer than a woman being a citizen?"

• Matilda Joslyn Gage: “The soul must assert its own supremacy or die”

• Frances Willard: "The guns are ballots and the bullets are ideas... there is a soprano as well as a bass"

• Carrie Chapman Catt: "We women demand an equal voice, we shall accept nothing less."

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett: "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."

• Mary Church Terrell: "Lifting as we climb, onward & upward we go."

•  Lucy Burns: "Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage?"

• Jeanette Rankin/Adelina Otero-Warren/Alice Paul: "We will win... Votes for women"