Iron Jawed Angels

"When youre alone you can make any choice you want. But when someone loves you, you lose that right. I wont give anything away until we have it all. I cant"."

"Were legitimate citizens. Were taxed without representation. Were not allowed to serve on juries so were not tried by our peers. Its unconscionable, not to mention unconstitutional. We dont make the laws but we have to obey them like children"."

"I believe the might of America is the love of its people for the Freedom of Mankind Woodrow Wilson, March 6, 1915."

"Were citizens or were chattel. You dont really need a degree from Harvard to figure that out"."

"You ask me to explain myself. Im just wondering, what needs to be explained? It should be very clear. Look into your own heart—I swear to you, mine is no different. You want a place in a trades and professions where you can earn your bread; so do I. You want the means of self-expression, some way to satisfy your own personal ambitions; so do I. You want a voice in the government under which you live; so do I. What is there to explain?"

"This war could not be fought by America if it had not been for the services of women. We have made partners of the women in the war. Shall we make them partners of only suffering and sacrifice and toil, and not a partnership of privilege and right? I know the magic it will work in their thoughts and their spirits if you give this thing to them that is mere justice. We shall need their moral sense to preserve what is right and what is fine and worthy in our system of life. Be assured that the voices of the radicals who agitate and disrupt have no influence here today. The task of woman lies at the very heart of the war and I know how much stronger that heart will beat if you do this just thing and show our women that you trust them, as much as you in fact depend on them. We shall deserve to be distrusted if we do not enfranchise them with the fullest possible enfranchisement as it is now certain the other free and great nations will enfranchise theirs. Have I said that the passage of this amendment is a vitally necessary war measure? And do you need further proof?"