Alice Paul Quotes
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
Gallagher, Robert S. "I Was Arrested, Of Course…". American Heritage, vol. 25, no. 2, Feb. 1974.
The following year, women got the right to vote, the first nation to reach that level of enlightenment.
The classification of women with criminals and lunatics referred to the fact that at this time Women could not vote in New Zealand or any other nation of the world. The following year, much as a result of her efforts, New Zealand became the first country in the world to allow women to vote.
Billinghurst was physically handicapped without the use of her legs. She protested and marched in protest parades using a hand propelled tricycle which the police sometimes dumped her out of and left her immobile in alleys.
She was the first presidential candidate's wife to admit such a radical position.
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.
