This day in History
Is it right that your mother, your sister… should be classed with criminals and lunatics… ? Is it right that while the loafer, the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?… Is it right… that a mother… should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?
Kate Sheppard , Is it right? (1892)
Today in history, in 1893 The womens suffrage petition was presented.
