Veda Boyd Jones

“Do you see yon woods? Do you see yon trees? W shall cut them down and build new houses and live as our fathers did. We will dance when our laws command us to dance, we will feast when our hearts command us to feast. Do we ask the white man "Do as the Indian does"? No, we do not. Why then do you ask us "Do as the white man does"? It is a strict law that bids us dance. It is a strict law that bids us distribute our property among our friends and neighbors. It is a good law. Let the white man observe his law, we shall observe ours. And now if you are come to forbid us, begone, if not, you will be welcome to us.

- Kwakiutl chief”
― Veda Boyd Jones

“It is true, a woman’s highest duty is to her home, but that is just as true of man. But what an absolutely crazy and absurd proposition would it not be to argue that he would be a better father and a more loyal husband if we take away from him the right to vote. American manhood would resent as an insult any serious mention of such a theory. It is just as much an insult to American womanhood to say that giving her the full right of citizenship will interfere with a mother’s devotion to her children and her home.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression