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Iron Jawed Angels
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I've got nothing to do
with committee appointments.
Let her submit her proposal to Anna.
She's here in Philadelphia.
All she wants is half an hour.
She's a bright girl, Swarthmore...
and a doctorate from Penn.
Her family has money.
Carrie, are you listening?
Yeah.
She wants to lobby
for a constitutional amendment.
She thinks Congress is going to
suddenly roll over?
I thought you said she was bright.
- Paula who?
- Paul, Alice Paul.
- She worked in England.
- Don't bring me any radicals, Harriet.
She's not a radical, she's a Quaker.
She came all the way down here
to meet you and Anna.
Be nice.
- It's mine.
- I saw it first.
- It's calling my name.
- I must be deaf.
Heads.
- It's not your style.
- Nice try.
Carrie Catt's very proud of the
state-by-state campaign. Congratulate her.
On what? 64 years of begging,
and now women can vote in nine states.
How many years per state is that?
You congratulate her.
We go there and say, "Do the math,"
we won't get the letterhead or the office.
You want to be two girls on a soapbox...
or do you want to go to Washington
and play with the big lads?
I want them to give us
the Congressional Committee.
- What?
- Did you swallow it whole?
I strangled it first.
The President of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association...
the Reverend Anna Howard Shaw.
Don't bring up suffrage in England,
Shaw thinks the Brits are hooligans.
No matter what,
don't get your knickers in a knot.
- Don't start up, be polite.
- I'm always polite. When am I not polite?
It's the color, with your hair.
The passage of a constitutional amendment
is not a realistic goal.
- Theoretically, yes, in the future.
First, we need more states.
Susan B. Anthony petitioned for it in 1868
and again in...
Thank you for the history lesson.
If Susan B. Anthony were alive today,
she'd say 1912 is the future.
Dr. Shaw and I worked side by side
with Susan and Elizabeth Stanton...
while you were still in diapers, Miss Paul.
Would you do me a favor
and please refrain...
from second-guessing her thoughts
on this topic?
"Do me a favor, don't second-guess
Susan's thoughts on cheese.
"We worked side by side.
We worked cheek to cheek with Susan.
"She despised Cheddar
and she loathed Muenster."
A constitutional amendment
that gives women the right to vote...
assuming it doesn't die in committee, will
almost certainly be vetoed in the Senate.
We waste time and money. We squander
the goodwill of the Democrats...
and worse, we look like babies
with no political savvy.
Which gives ammunition to our opponents.
Have you any other thoughts, Miss Paul?
A parade. In March.
The day Wilson's arriving
for his inauguration.
We're guaranteed a crowd, and hopefully...
some badly-needed publicity
from the newspapers.
that you two met in England.
- Those women give suffrage a bad name.
- Better than no name at all.
I beg your pardon?
Lucy was studying at Oxford.
What? I was.
While I'm in sympathy
with the British suffragettes...
I don't approve of their methodology.
We don't throw bricks
to make our position clear.
If I send you to Washington...
I want your assurance
that there will be no hooligan tactics.
You have it.
I don't consider myself above the law
under any circumstances.
Then you may take over NAWSA's committee
in Washington.
Have your parade, Miss Paul.
Thank you.
You'll have to raise
your own funds, of course.
That the female mind
is inferior to the male mind...
need not be assumed.
essentially different...
and that this difference
is of a kind and degree...
that votes for women
would constitute a political danger...
ought to be plain to everyone.
I do not wish to see the day come...
when the women in my state
in the muck and mire of partisan politics.
These flippant girls
singing "votes for women"...
know not the disasters they invite
by this reckless movement.
Flip you for it.
Let me see.
How do you raise money to raise money?
Excuse me.
All we need is a handful of society women.
I found someone who designs parade floats.
Floats? I thought we were going to
keep it small.
Why?
You've never organized a parade before.
It's not like giving a dinner party.
- Have you ever given a dinner party?
- No.
Then what are you worried about?
Did you get the permit?
I've been to the District Police three times...
Go over his head,
to the Parks Commissioner.
- I bet you would.
I think 1,000 women marching...
means more than 10,000 signatures
on a piece of paper.
Suffrage is not a dead issue.
It's us, it's you. It's living, breathing women.
We're not just a petition
that can be crumpled up and tossed away.
And this is what marching does.
Marching shows the politicians
that we women...
are united in our demand for political...
Show me a raise. Screw the politicians.
Go ahead, if you think it'll help.
Now, there's...
A hundred and forty-six women
burned to death in a factory fire last month.
Where's your fire escape?
Laws are made by elected officials.
A fire escape can be required by law.
A vote is a fire escape.
If we take Sunday off to la-di-da for you,
we get fired on Monday.
You have children, missus?
They don't eat ballots.
Go ahead, shout your head off.
The ruling class are those who have a voice,
and that voice is a vote.
No one hears you.
- Votes for women.
- The parade is going to happen and...
Please, would you like one?
The more the merrier. Anyone?
A vote is a fire escape.
That's right. A vote's a fire escape.
Mrs. Wenclawska. Ruza.
Alice Paul.
Now give me the rest, college girl.
Helen Keller's in town.
Arrange for me to meet her.
I don't know which hotel.
She's deaf and blind.
If she found it, I'm sure you can.
Hi. Mabel Vernon.
I played hockey with Alice at Swarthmore.
Lucy Burns.
D.C. Police will not guarantee our safety
if we march on the 3rd...
- because Wilson's arriving.
- We're not changing the date.
Exactly what I said. I like that one.
And he said, "Well...
with inaugural crowds...
"and I'm afraid I won't be held responsible."
And I said, "Look, mister,
we're entitled to police protection."
And he said, "Why don't you
take my advice, you ladies?
- "Why don't you stay at home?"
- Miss Paul?
Ida Wells-Barnett,
from the Chicago delegation.
I'm told you expect Negro women
to march in a separate unit, at the back.
Southern suffrage groups
threatened to withdraw...
Are the ladies afraid
we'll march out of step?
- Call their bluff.
- We can't afford to lose their support...
not with the Democrats in office.
Who's "we"? Women? Or just white women?
- Now, wait a minute.
- We have one agenda: Suffrage.
- Add another issue...
- lf we don't stand up now...
when you finally get the vote?
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