The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

- Helen Gahagan Douglas

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

- Helen Gahagan Douglas

There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.

- Helen Gahagan Douglas

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

- Helen Gahagan Douglas

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at…

- Helen Gahagan Douglas

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

- Helen Gahagan Douglas

To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very diff…

- Helen Gahagan Douglas

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

- Helen Gahagan Douglas

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

- Helen Gahagan Douglas