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Kate sheppard biography
Kate Sheppard was the leader of the New Zealand women's suffrage movement to help women get the vote. In her early life she lived in Liverpool United Kingdom and went by the name of Catherine Wilson Malcolm. Her parents were Scottish so in her early life she moved to Scotland after moving to England with her parents. She was raised and educated in Dublin,Ireland. In Scotland she got the nickname Kate from her teacher that said Catherine was too long. She was bort up strongly religious and she was very bright and therefore very smart and adsorbent. She noticed things that weren't fair and asked people why they were like that and she never got a good reason.
Her father died in 1862 and her and her two brothers,one sister and her mother moved to New Zealand as saloon passengers six years later. They arrived on the Matoaka at Lyttelton sometime in February 1869, nearly a year later. Then they lived in Christchurch where Kate got married to Walter Allen Sheppard on the 21 of July 1871 only three years after she moved to Christchurch. Their first and only son Douglas was born on the 8th of October 1880 in Christchurch. Kate was an active member of the Trinity Congregational Church, giving her time to the church by running Bible classes and fundraisers.
In 1885 Mary Leavitt, an evangelist delegate sent from the Woman's Catholic Christian Temperance Union of the U.S.A, commenced her mission in New Zealand and Kate Sheppard became one of the founding members of the New Zealand Women's Catholic Christian Temperance Union. It was soon realised by the union that proposed social and law-giving reforms concerning temperance and the welfare of women and children would be more effectively carried out if women had the right to vote and the right to representation in Parliament. In 1887 franchise departments were formed within the local unions and Sheppard was made leader of the franchise and legislation department.
Kate Sheppard traveled New Zealand holding public meetings and writing two newspapers. In 1893 Kate and the other suffrages started to gather signatures for the petition and they got nearly 32 000 women to sign it. The petition was 270-m-long, the longest petition to be presented in Parliament. Despite the opposition of Premier Richard Seddon the petition was passed by both houses of Parliament and became law in 1893 making New Zealand the first country to have women vote . The news took New Zealand by storm and inspired suffrage movements all over the globe.
So Kate Shepherd was one of the most memorable women in New Zealand history. She gave women the vote that was one of the first steps of women and men having equal rights. I am proud that New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote. Just imagine if women couldn't vote imagine if it was how it was back then. I like to think I would do the same thing as Kate but maybe I wouldn't be brave enough and would just go along with the popular opinion. Imagine how brave she would have to been to do all that and how tiring it would have been to have 3 failed attempts before she finally got the vote for women. She never gave up and that is what made her so great.
So that is why in my opinion Kate Sheppard is a great person and should be remembered forever of course there were others and she could not have done it without them but that was about her. She is my hero and I hope you think she is great as well. Now if you didn't know previously that everyone should be treated the same no matter if they female or man,young or old,strong or weak,they should all have the same rights and be treated equally. It is wrong to treated any human like they are more or less then human. These are some quotes that relay speak to me and I hope will men alot to you : “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” and there is also: “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?” and the last one is: “All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.” there's are some of my favorite quotes from Kate Sheppard and I hope you enjoyed then and my biography. thatch the
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