21 Quotes by Gertrude Beasley

The Socialists had always stood for woman suffrage and would continue to work for the women regardless of whether or not they received a single vote from the Women's Party. I knew whom I would vote for.

When I went to the swimming pool [in Chicago] I found negro girls floating about in the water. The first impulse was to refuse to go in; then I remembered I was in Yankee land and when in Rome -- I slide off into the water.

At midday on the 23rd of June, 1920, the Empress of Japan left the harbor of Vancouver, ploughing through the northern course towards Japan. I was happy, as happy as a person of my temperament is capable of being.