Alice Paul Quotes

The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.

Alice Paul

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 11, 1885 - July 9, 1977

Topics

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Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

John C. Maxwell

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I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.

Jeff Daniels

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Everybody should be defended, and people should be willing to stand with them to let them know that an attack on them is an attack on me.

Tony Cardenas

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To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

Rupert Sheldrake

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Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

Joni Mitchell

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They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Constantin Brancusi

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

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If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth.

Martin Freeman

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I do use FaceTime because I'm frequently isolated from friends and my boyfriend, so I get that.

Morgan Saylor

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I've always tried to vote my conscience.

Leonard Lance

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