Mrs. Louise Sykes Burning President Wilson’s Speech on Boston
Common
Suffrage Prisoners

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“I do pray, and that most earnestly and constantly, for some
terrific shock to startle the women o f the nation into a self-
respect which mill compel them to, see the absolute degradation o
f their present position; which will compel them to break their
yoke of bondage and give them faith in themselves; which will
make them proclaim their allegiance to women first . . . . The
fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more
debasing because they do not realize it. O to compel them to see
and feel and to give them the courage and the conscience to speak
and act for their own freedom, though they face the scorn and
contempt of all the world for doing it!"

Susan B. Anthony, 1872.

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Part I

Leadership