“The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.”

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

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.

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

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

I finally decided to give music my all. If it didn’t work out and I had to move home, fine. I had to give it 100% first.

there’s no straight line between effort and reward.

No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.

If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.

I’m telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.