Quotes by 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.”

“Food simply isn't important to me.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.”

“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 devel...”

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

“I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone and then you get a great mosaic at the end.”

“I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. ...”

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

“The militant policy is bringing success. . . . the agitation has brought England out of her lethargy, and women of England are now talking of the time when they will vote, instead of the time when ...”

“When the Quakers were founded…one of their principles was and is equality of the sexes. So I never had any other idea…the principle was always there.”

“I feel very strongly that if you are going to do anything, you have to take one thing and do it.”

“NAWSA opposed Paul's tactics, but many historians concur in the opinion that these militant actions helped to spur the urgency of the moment.”

“Woman suffrage is an almost forgotten issue today, and yet the battle is not won. Despite the capitulation of Congress last June, nearly three-fourths of the women of these States will be denied th...”

“Alice Paul is a leader of action, not of thought. She is a general, a supreme tactician, not an abstract thinker. Her joy is in the fight itself, in each specific drawn battle, not in debating with...”

“Alice Paul comes of Quaker stock and there is in her bearing that powerful serenity so characteristic of the successful Quaker. Like many another famous general she is well under five foot six, a s...”

“I may add that Alice Paul's visit to London has brightened the lives of such Woman's Party exiles as Hazel Hunkins, Betty Gram and myself. To see this wonder-worker-so quiet, so indefatigable, so s...”