Sunday, February 7, 2010

Sunday Quote

Alice Paul (1885-1977) was one of the more visible proponents of women's suffrage in the period just before passage of the 19th Amendment. The following was no doubt referring specifically to women, but certainly has broader applications:

"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."

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