Alice Paul famous quotes

07-12-2025

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

#Women #Order #World
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

#Peace #Women #Ubuntu
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

#Women #Equality #Rights
To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
-- Alice Paul

#Ordinary #Complicated
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.
-- Alice Paul

#Mosaics #Movement #Stones
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
-- Alice Paul

#America #Democracy #Twenties
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
-- Alice Paul

#Sex #Rights #Law
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
-- Alice Paul

#Men #Rights #United States
It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore womenâ€¦Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.
-- Alice Paul

#Fighting #Political #Fields
Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.
-- Alice Paul

#Insanity #Mistaken
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

#Party #Race #Program
Food simply isn't important to me.
-- Alice Paul

#Food #Important
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
-- Alice Paul

#Rights #Long #Waiting
Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.
-- Alice Paul

#Abortion #Exploitation #Ultimate
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

#Meat #Vegetarian
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

#Different #World #Might
Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.
-- Alice Paul

#Fighting #Ignored #Prepared

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