Word: suffragists
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...universally admitted that "government without the consent of the governed" is no longer practical in an enlightened community; and in a democracy universal suffrage is the result of the conviction that the interests of every citizen should be equally represented in government. What our anti-suffragist friends have failed to see is that elections are always expressions of opinions as to interests, both public and private, rather than an actual recording of such interests. If elections always determined the real interests of the majority we should never see corrupt and inefficient public officials, bad laws, and bad governments and disastrous...
Miss Addams is well known as a lecturer and writer on social and political reforms. She is president of the National Woman's Peace Party, and an active suffragist, having had much to do with winning the vote for the women of Illinois. Among her works are "Democracy and Social Ethics," "Newer Ideals of Peace," "A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil," and "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets...
Miss Addams is commonly called "the first woman citizen of America". She is a well-known writer and lecturer on social and political reforms. She is president of the Woman's Peace Party, and a prominent suffragist. Among her best known works are "Democracy and Social Ethics," "Newer Ideals of Peace," "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets," and "A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil...
...doubtless been influenced in part by this. Far from "branding her as forbidden fruit" as the editor of the Women's Journal puts it,--and how childish such a statement seems!--the Corporation simply refuses to have reports circulated, in great, glaring headlines, to the effect that "Harvard Turns Suffragist...
During the past few weeks, the Corporation has taken a step which should not rest without protest. Permission was asked that Mrs. Pankhurst, the English suffragist, be allowed the use of a Harvard building in which to deliver an address. A week before, when the Corporation had been petitioned for the use of a hall in which to hold a series of lectures on "The Progressive Movement", the hall was granted only on condition that the public be excluded. The ground taken was that a University building is not the proper place for public political agitation; but that, if only...