Josephine K. Henry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”