Martha Griffiths Quotes

Martha Griffiths — American Politician born on January 29, 1912, died on April 22, 2003

Martha Wright Griffiths was an American lawyer and judge before being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1954. Griffiths was the first woman to serve on the House Committee on Ways and Means and the first woman elected to the United States Congress from Michigan as a member of the Democratic Party. She was also the person "instrumental" in including the prohibition of sex discrimination under Title VII in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1982, Griffiths was also the first female elected as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan.... (wikipedia)

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.

Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.