Birth: January 9, 1859 Death: March 9, 1947
Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex..
The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must ….
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force..
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less..
Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must com….
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard ….
If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory..
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves..
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage..
The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty..
To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns;….
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It….
The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior..
The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country..
The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer..
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life..
There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due ….
it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' a….
For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women….
Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's ….
the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical ….