Kate Sheppard

Overview

Kate Sheppard (née Malcolm) born Liverpool, England March 10, 1847 (d. 1934). Leader of world's first successful suffrage campaign, bringing voting rights to women of New Zealand, 1893.

Quotations

“There were people who would say that there must be fighting, and probably they were right in a sense because so long as greed and hatred were in men's hearts there would continue to be war, but it was up to women to make sure that in time the combative element would be used to fight for great moral reforms rather than for any other reason.” (NCW conference, 1900, in Megan Hutching, “’Mothers of the World’: Women, Peace and Arbitration”, New Zealand Journal of History, 1993, p. 174; photo Wikipedia)