Alice Paul

Overview

Alice Paul born Laurel Hill, NJ January 11, 1886 (d. 1977). Quaker pacifist; suffragist; member of the National Women's Suffrage Association; later founded National Woman’s Party, 1913; organized first nonviolent pickets of the White House, 1917.

Quotations

"Well, I think that we feel that we ought to continue and I feel that we will continue."(June 1917, when threatened with arrest, A. Fry interview, Dec. 24-26, 1972; 1920 photo Wikipedia)