 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
In 1907 I even stood for Parliament at a by-election, on behalf of votes for women. The Wimbledon Campaign was short and arduous. It must be quite impossible for younger people to imagine the bitterness of the opposition to women's equality.
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.１, chap. 6: Principia Mathematica, 1967
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In 1907, Russell stood unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party in a by-election for the House of Commons from the Wimbledon constituency on the outskirts of London, for the National Federation of Women's Suffrage Associations, on the grounds of women's suffrage and free trade. Russell's opponent was Conservative Party bigwig H. Chaplin.
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