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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902 (Social activist, abolitionist, author)

“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?” 

Anna Howard Shaw, 1847-1919 (Physician, Methodist minister, president of the National Woman Suffrage Association)

“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!”

Frances Willard, 1839-1898 (Feminist lecturer, founder of the National Council of Women, anti-child abuse activist)

“Alien illiterates rule our cities today; the saloon is their palace, and the toddy stick their scepter. The colored race multiplies like the locusts of Egypt.” 

Carrie Chapman Catt, 1859-1947 (Founder of the League of Women Voters)

“White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.” 

Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, 1835-1930 (First woman to serve in the Senate)

“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.” 

Excerpted from an article by Mallory Ortberg, The Toast

Susan B. Anthony, famed suffragette and all-around assface: “I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.”

Margaret Sanger: [in December 10, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble of the Eugenics Society re: the Negro Project (meant to sterilize Black men and women)] We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out the idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” She supported the Klan openly.

Some helpful context for these suffragettes…they were frequently chastised by Black feminists, abolitionists, anti-oppression activists, etc. but those critiques were suppressed. Even by other countries. It was mainstream bourgeoisie society that painted these bitches as well-to-do and revolutionary, mainly after the fact. Ida Wells after her anti-lynching campaign got together Alpha Suffrage Club among Black women in Chicago, and went to the 1913 suffrage parade in DC. When they arrived, these demon white women told them to stay segregated!!

Ida was on a mission to put white fems and oppression on front street. She took Willard to task for not mentioning anti-black racism and oppression as fundamental feminist problems. When her article about Frances Willard was published in England, Lady Somerset was so livid her pasty ass penned Frederick to get ‘Ida under control’. Why? Calling out a powerful white women’s selective philanthropy?