“In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.”

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.

There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by ‘the people’ is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide…whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

The vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

I was the owner of my own darkness.