If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.
About Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shawwas a leader of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first women to be ordained as a Methodist minister in the United States.
More quotes from Anna Howard Shaw
It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.
American physician and activist (1847-1919)
A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
American physician and activist (1847-1919)
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
American physician and activist (1847-1919)
If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.
American physician and activist (1847-1919)
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
American physician and activist (1847-1919)
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
American physician and activist (1847-1919)
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
American physician and activist (1847-1919)