Anna Howard Shaw Quotes

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

I am most certainly a feminist.

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

As Suffragettes we could not be pacifists at any price.

We have waited long enough to get the vote. We want it now!

I want more people to speak up about issues, like equal pay.

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.

I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past 25 years of my life speaking truth to power. And using humor to do that.

With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

As women, we must stand up for ourselves. We must stand up for each other. We must stand up for justice for all.

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

I still consider myself a feminist.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.