Kate Sheppard quotes

Kate Sheppard was a prominent New Zealand suffragist and social reformer, best known for leading the movement to grant women the right to vote. Her efforts played a crucial role in making New Zealand the first country to achieve women's suffrage. She remains an enduring symbol of women's rights and social progress. Here are 2 of her quotes:

The news is being flashed far and wide, and before our earth has revolved on her axis every civilized community within the reach of the electric wires will have received the tidings that civic freedom has been granted to the women of New Zealand. ... It does not seem a great thing to be thankful for, that the gentlemen who confirm the laws which render women liable to taxation and penal servitude have declared us to be "persons"... We are glad and proud to think that even in so conservative a body as the Legislative Council there is a majority of men who are guided by the principles of reason and justice, who desire to see their womenkind treated as reasonable beings, and who have triumphed over prejudice, narrow-mindedness and selfishness.

Kate Sheppard