Josephine K. Henry

“A just government cannot be formed or exist without the consent of the governed.”

“We are not enemies of men, but of the system that makes men our enemies.”

“Ignorance of the law excuses no one, yet one-half of the people are not allowed to have a voice in making the laws they are required to obey.”

“There is no argument for the freedom of man that is not an argument for the freedom of woman.”

“The subjection of woman is the cause of half the poverty, misery and crime in the world.”

“The home is the nursery of the state, and what is learned there is practiced in the capitol.”

“The ballot is the only potent weapon of the weak.”

“To be free is to be a law unto one's self.”

“Taxation without representation is tyranny, whether the taxed be men or women.”

“Woman's degradation is man's degradation.”