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Alice Paul Quotes

1885–1977 United States

Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.

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When the Quakers were founded…one of their principles was and is equality of the sexes. So I never had any other idea…the principle was always there.”

I feel very strongly that if you are going to do anything, you have to take one thing and do it.

Interview (1974)

The militant policy is bringing success. . . . the agitation has brought England out of her lethargy, and women of England are now talking of the time when they will vote, instead of the time when their children would vote, as was the custom a year or two back.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alice Paul (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.