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
ALICE PAUL
Alice Paul on direction
Alice Paul15 quotes“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.”
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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 PaulAlice 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 PaulAlice Paul Food simply isn’t important to me.
Alice PaulAlice Paul To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
Alice PaulAlice Paul There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.
Alice PaulAlice Paul Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.
Alice PaulAlice Paul Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.
Alice PaulAlice Paul Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
Alice PaulAlice Paul We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
Alice PaulAlice 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 PaulAlice Paul 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 PaulAlice Paul Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
Alice PaulAlice 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 PaulAlice 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.
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We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.
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50 Cent50 Cent Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
Dick CavettDick Cavett Don’t let others dictate who you are. Decide for yourself.
Hanna ShebarHanna Shebar There are so many young women in film school right now, and it’s just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.
Olivia WildeOlivia Wilde It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.
Christian BaleChristian Bale Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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