Birth: January 9, 1859 Death: March 9, 1947
The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, ….
What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace ….
The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals w….
living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it..
There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman..
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….
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life..
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….
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….
it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' a….
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;….
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 ….
If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory..
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 ….
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage..
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force..
The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty..
The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior..
The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer..
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less..