350:. One evening, Stanton spoke to a crowd at Clark's home about the state of the suffrage movement in America. Local clergymen present questioned Stanton about the Bible's position of woman in relation to man, and Stanton described at length how equality among the sexes was supported by Bible verse, but that the Bible could be selectively quoted to support conflicting arguments. Because of this, said Stanton, it should be limited in its authority. Clark, though sympathetic to Stanton's views, expressed to Stanton her fear that some of the strictest of those in attendance might have been shocked by her ultra-liberal opinions.
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205:"—the idea that the right to vote should be extended to women. In 1861 she wrote to her step-cousin Agnes McLaren, "how absurd to talk of repression and taxation going hand in hand, and all the while excluding wholly the one half of the population from the franchise." In 1866 as Helen Bright she signed the "Ladies' Petition" on suffrage being circulated by
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to the
Liberal Reform bill. Woodall's proposal was an incremental one: it sought votes for unmarried women only, not for wives. Clark gave her support on the grounds that this not wholly satisfactory clause had more chance of passing and could subsequently be used as a wedge by which women's suffrage
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during a meeting organised by the
Bristol and West of England National Society for Women's Suffrage. In her speech, she questioned the irony "that though it was perfectly right for a woman to dance at a public hall, the moment she ventured upon a public platform to advocate public peace, morality and
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visiting from
America, Clark "made her impassioned appeal", bringing the audience to a "hushed and profound silence." Anthony described how heroic it seemed for a daughter to speak in faithfulness to her own highest convictions even when those convictions were "in opposition to her loved and honored
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On 23 January 1879 at
Bristol, Clark gave a stirring speech for suffrage that was later printed and distributed as a four-page pamphlet. She noted that the struggle for women's suffrage was looked upon by many "as chiefly of a sentimental character" and that the over-riding "question of peace or war
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who joked that the resolution adopted by the conference was "somewhat in advance of the ideas of the speaker of the evening," a comment which elicited roars of laughter from the crowd and a grin of merriment from Bright. However, Bright's subsequent speech to the crowd, one which elucidated many of
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during a trip he made to
England, one in which he befriended John Bright. Clark heard Douglass speak about the state of racial inequality in America. When Douglass returned to England in 1886–87, he visited Clark once again at her home, and spoke about race oppression, caste barriers and African
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which sought to assist former slaves in establishing basic yet comfortable homes. In the 1880s, Clark was a founding member of the
Society for the Furtherance of Human Brotherhood. In 1906, with Helena Brownsword Dowson and Jane Cobden Unwin, Clark became active in the
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the high points of
Liberal achievement, was seen by Anthony to avoid mention of the women's suffrage resolution and any acknowledgment of the small but significant steps toward women's emancipation that had taken place in the UK from 1866 to 1882.
302:, and though he had accompanied Mill during the presentation of the Ladies' Petition to the House, he was never personally in favour of women voting. In front of her father, 1,600 delegates, and an audience which included
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John Bright presided over a great public meeting held in the town hall on the evening of the second day. Some 5,000 appeared seeking entrance, but thousands were turned away for lack of room. Bright was introduced by
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Clark joined the
Enfranchisement of Women Committee in 1866–67 and in 1870 was a member of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage. Clark spoke publicly for the first time in 1872, giving a lecture in
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Americans' "total inability to protect themselves without the ballot of which they had been deprived by cruel persecution and the fraudulent manipulation of the ballot box." At this gathering, Clark's neighbour
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this movement I take to be a great symbol, and, as it were, the outward expression, of a great awakening, intellectual and moral, among women—and not only amongst the more scholarly, but among thousands of
294:. When Walter McLaren of Bradford made a motion on the first morning to include a resolution in favour of women's suffrage, the two women delegates spoke strongly in favour. Though Bright was considered a
126:. The daughter of a radical Member of Parliament, Clark was a prominent speaker for women's voting rights and at times a political realist who served as a mainstay of the 19th century suffrage movement in
465:, a Quaker group of reformers. Roger Clark's wife Sarah Bancroft Clark was a tax resister and suffragist active in several political groups. In 1900, Clark lived in Millfield, Street, Somerset, England.
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in
America, founder of IWSA, proposed that, instead of the annual IWSA meeting taking place in Berlin (which appeared impossible due to the war), an international congress of women should meet in
249:, spoke in the House of Commons against the bill, saying that "The Bill seems to be based on a proposition that is untenable ... it is a Bill based on an assumed hostility between the sexes."
170:, took the place of the mother and served an influential role in raising Clark. Six years after her mother's death, Clark's father remarried, eventually having seven more children including
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and a wide range of women united by the wish for a quick end to hostilities. The letter was a plea for world peace among women, and was answered in kind by 155 Germanic feminists including
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is to the front." Clark argued that women's political power should be called upon to advocate for peace and to allow society forward progress. Of the
Parliamentary franchise, she said,
408:(NUWSS) was in the minority: she advocated for NUWSS to send delegates to The Hague in April. However, NUWSS membership was primarily concerned with helping the UK men win the war.
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presided over the two days of debate among delegates from 500 Liberal associations. Two of a handful of women chosen as delegates included Bright's daughter Helen Bright Clark, and
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could be expanded. Though he attempted several times through 1889, Woodall was unable to cement such a clause into a bill before the House.
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the shoe makers, and member of a family friendly to the idea of women's rights: his sister and niece had also signed the suffrage petition.
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travelled through Europe gathering support for, and inviting participation in, her work-in-progress
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was a physician, humanitarian and active in the peace movement. Roger Clark co-founded the
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father." Only 30 delegates voted against the resolution.
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