7 Quotes by Martha Griffiths

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.

Keep your eye on the main event.

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.

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.

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.