Frances E. Willard Quotes

Frances E. Willard — American Activist born on September 28, 1839, died on February 17, 1898

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879, and remained president for 19 years. She developed the slogan "do everything" for the WCTU, pressing its membership to engage in lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publishing, and education. Her vision progressed to include federal aid to education, free school lunches, unions for workers, the eight-hour work day, work relief for the poor, municipal sanitation and boards of health, national transportation, strong anti-rape laws, protections against child abuse, and Henry George's Single-tax land reform theories... (wikipedia)