White Ribboner

In every White Ribboner, whose work is worth the name, these three must meet, and the greatest outcome of the crusade in its original and organic form was that it gave to women of ability the schooling in which they acquired availability, and helped them to the positions in which, through responsibility, they grew from what they were to what they had the power to be.

Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1893

No, that is not a fair way to put it-we do a woman an injustice when we think that it would require an argument, for if she-the individual White Ribboner of the world, I care not whether she has a dark or light complexion, whether she lives in Bombay or Boston, if she were here present she would be ashamed for herself and for us that we had ever thought she would not give a penny rather than a half-penny to the holy cause of a clear brain for this round globe.

Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1893