Alice Paul quotes

Alice Paul was an American suffragist and women's rights activist who played a key role in the fight for the 19th Amendment. A leader of the National Woman's Party, she advocated nonviolent protest and equal rights for women. She devoted her life to advancing gender equality and remains a celebrated figure in the history of American civil rights. Here are 10 of her quotes:

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

Food simply isn't important to me.

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 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

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

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

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

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

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