Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be clas… - Kate Sheppard

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Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics... ? Is it right that while 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

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Katherine Wilson Sheppard (10 March 1847 – 13 July 1934), born Catherine Wilson Malcolm, was a social activist in New Zealand. Her efforts helped make New Zealand the first country to give women the right to vote.

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Birth Name: Catherine Lopez garcia

Also Known As: adios • Kate

Alternative Names: Katherine Wilson Sheppard • Catherine Wilson Sheppard • Katherine Wilson "Kate" Sheppard • Catherine Wilson Malcolm • Katherine Wilson Lovell-Smith

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We are tired of having a 'sphere' doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is 'unwomanly'. We want to be natural just for a change … we must be ourselves at all risks.

All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.

Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.

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