Alice Paul

Activist

1885-01-11 – 1977-07-09

Quotes by Alice Paul

• The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.

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• I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.

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• I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.

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• I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remember my mother taking me to suffrage meetings held in the home of a Quaker family that lived not far from us.

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• Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

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• The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

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• The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.

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• It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

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• We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

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• It has become impossible to forget 'votes for women,' just as it was impossible to forget the reformation of Luther.

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• Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

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• There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

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