Despite backlash from society, Alice Paul took a stand for women’s suffrage through peaceful resistance. Her perseverance enabled her to persuade a reluctant government to pass the 19th Amendment, ultimately giving women a voice in the government.
[Library of Congress, 1920}
"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"
-Alice Paul
-Alice Paul