Quotes by Alice Paul

About Alice Paul:

Alice Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and the main leader and strategist of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Along with Lucy Burns and others, Paul strategized the events, such as the Silent Sentinels, which led the successful campaign that resulted in its passage in 1920.
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Food simply isn't important to me.

Alice Paul

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Alice Paul

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.

Alice Paul

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Paul

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic.

Alice Paul

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.

Alice Paul

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

Alice Paul

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.

Alice Paul

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

Alice Paul

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

Alice Paul

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

Alice Paul

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

Alice Paul

Author Bio

  • NameAlice Paul
  • DescriptionAmerican suffragette
  • BornJanuary 11, 1885
  • DiedJuly 9, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJurist
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame