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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. ”
The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see. ”
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. ”
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. ”
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. ”
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. ”
There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it. ”
I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remember my mother taking me to suffrage meetings held in the home of a Quaker family that lived not far from us. ”
I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it. ”
I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done. ”