Martha Griffiths quotes:

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

Keep your eye on the main event.

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.