The Accusation That I Am A Woman

In America, Public Opinion Is The Leader

The Door Might Not Be Opened To A Woman Again For A Long, Long Time, And I Had A Kind Of Duty To Other Women To Walk In And Sit Down On The Chair That Was Offered, And So Establish The Right Of Others Long Hence And Far Distant In Geography To Sit In The High Seats.

It's Only When We're Relaxed That The Thing Way Down Deep In All Of Us - Call It The Subconscious Mind, The Spirit, What You Will - Has A Chance To Well Up And Tell Us How We Shall Go.

This Leads To A Question - If A Great Many People Are For A Certain Project, Is It Necessarily Right? If The Vast Majority Is For It, Is It Even More Certainly Right? This, To Be Sure, Is One Of The Tricky Points Of Democracy. The Minority Often Turns Out To Be Right, And Though One Believes In The Efficacy Of The Democratic Process, One Has Also To Recognize That The Demand Of The Many For A Particular Project At A Particular Time May Mean Only Disaster.

I Came To Washington To Work For God, Fdr, And The Millions Of Forgotten, Plain Common Workingmen.