The shame is, you’ve withheld from us so long our dower
Of earth’s inheritance. We do not beg for alms, for charity.
We do not want our rights doled out; we want full liberty
To grow, to be, to do our part, as Nature meant we should.
We want a perfect sister-, as well as brother-hood.
By Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw
(Chairman of the New York City Suffrage Party. In “Harper’s Bazar.”)
The getting of votes has been to us like the saving of souls.
By Julia Wedgewood
(English writer. From an essay, “Female Suffrage, Considered Chiefly with Regard to Its Indirect Results.”)