Alice Paul Best Quotes & Sayings

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected. — Alice Paul

Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women. — Alice 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. — Alice Paul

I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first. (Riley to her sister Alice about Paul) — Ann Brashares

Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of women's rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did. — Louis Menand

In his little speech to Alice, Humpty Dumpty sketches the future of human hopes and gives the clue to our salvation: to become masters of the words we speak, to make language answer our needs, Humpty Dumpty was a prophet, a man who spoke truths the world wasn't ready for. For all men are eggs, in a manner of speaking. We exist, but we haven't yet achieved the form that is our destiny. We are pure potential, an example of the not-yet-arrived. For man is a fallen creature
we know that from Genesis. Humpty Dumpty is also a fallen creature. He falls from his wall, and no one can put him back together again
neither his king, nor his horses, nor his men. But that is what we must all now strive to do. It is our duty as human beings to put the egg back together again. — Paul Auster

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 Paul

Food simply isn't important to me. — Alice 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 Paul

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

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

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

If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it. — Sally Robinson

It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women ... Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically. — Alice Paul

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society. — Alice Paul

Coincidentally the couple who had endowed it had lived in her parents' building. They had had an eight-year-old with a pretty singing voice who drowned at a Maine summer camp. "You can't imagine what happened," said Sarah, but of course Rebecca could imagine. Being a boy soprano had a shorter shelf life than being a supermodel. She could almost see it as Sarah went on and on, the boy with the pale blue eyes, insensible to the hormones coursing through his body as he stood on the stage at Alice Tully Hall. Apparently his choir director had chosen "Old Man River," sung not in the bass range made famous by Paul Robeson, or in the dialect in which it had been written, but in a high register with crisp consonants. (To be fair to the choir director, he had never — Anna Quindlen

Alice suspected Paul couldn't really picture his father, just like she couldn't picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you. — Ann Brashares

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

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