Alice Paul Quotes
Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
Alice Paul, 1885-1977, Founder, National Women's Party, Quoted in Words of Women Quotations for Success
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While Hoover was generally correct, he was also of the opinion that providing equal opportunity was all that the government needed to do. His lack of attention to other economic variables and potential problems made him totally unprepared for the Great Depression which would occur the following year and his narrow view of the role of government provided no relief or improvement as those of his successor FDR did.
Jackson was a great champion of equality and equal rights, but for whites only. He had no problem with Negro Slavery and had a major bias against Indians. He was the only U. S President to refuse to obey a decision of the Supreme Court when he forced the removal of the Cherokee Indians from their lands and forced them to the Oklahoma Territory.
Alice Stokes Paul 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. Paul initiated, and along with Lucy Burns and others, strategized events such as the Woman Suffrage Procession and the Silent Sentinels, which were part of the successful campaign that resulted in the amendment's passage in 1920.
