Alice Paul Quotes


It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.


Citations

Paul, Alice. Interview by Amelia R. Fry. Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment. Suffragists Oral History Project, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1976.

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Alice Paul
Alice Paul
  • Born: January 11, 1885
  • Died: July 9, 1977
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Suffragist

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.