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

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

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.

Food simply isn’t important to me.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

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

Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.

Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can’t. After all, Mitt Romney’s idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.

Trust is very much a part of our democracy.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.