Suffragists and Their Dates

Suffragists and Dates

• Lucretia Coffin Mott: Born January 3, 1793; Died November 11, 1880; Age 87
• Sojourner Truth: c. 1797; Died November 26, 1883; Age 86
• Abby Kelly Foster: Born January 15, 1811; Died January 14, 1887; Age 76
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Born January 12, 1815; Died October 26, 1902; Age 87
• Lucy Stone: Born August 13, 1818; Died October 18, 1893; Age 75
• Julia Ward Howe: Born May 27, 1819; Died October 17, 1910; Age 91
• Susan B. Anthony: Born February 15, 1820; Died March 13, 1906; Age 86
• Isabella Beecher Hooker: Born February 22, 1822; Died January 25, 1907; Age 84
• Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Born c. Oct 9, 1823 to June 5, 1893; Age 70
• Matilda Joslyn Gage: Born March 24, 1826; Died March 18, 1898; Age 72
• Frances Willard: Born February 14, 1847; Died July 2, 1919; Age 72
• Anna Howard Shaw: Born February 1839; Died Feb 17, 1898; Age 59
• Carrie Chapman Catt: Born January 8, 1859; Died March 9, 1947; Age 88
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Born July 16, 1862; Died March 25, 1931; Age 69
• Mary Church Terrell: Born September 23, 1863; died July 24, 1954; Age 91
• Lucy Burns: Born July 28, 1879; Died December 22, 1966; Age 87
• Jeanette Rankin: Born June 11, 1880; Died May 13, 1973; Age 93
• Adelina Otero-Warren: Born October 23, 1881;Died January 23, 1965; Age 84
• Alice Paul: Born January 11, 1885; Died July 9, 1977; Age 92

Suffragist Quotes and Statements

• Lucretia Mott: "I am no advocate of passivity. You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway."
• Sojourner Truth: "Bloody feet, sisters, have worn smooth the path by which you come up hither."
• Abby Kelly Foster: "The right is ours, have it we must, use it, we will."
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "Leave women... to find their sphere. Make your protest against tyranny, meanness, and injustice."
• Susan B. Anthony: "Men, their rights, & nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less."
• Isabella Beecher Hooker: "Can anything be plainer than that a woman, being a person, is a citizen?" -Mary Ann Shadd Cary: "Who shall overrule the voice of a woman? The soul must assert its own supremacy or die."
• Frances Willard:"The guns are ballots and the bullets are ideas."
• Carrie Chapman Catt: "We women demand an equal voice, we shall accept noting 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: "How shall we answer their challenge gentlemen? We will win."
• Adelina Otero-Warren: "We will win."
• Alice Paul: "Votes for women."

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