I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men’s rights are nothing more. Women’s rights are nothing less.

The line frames women’s rights not as a special pleading for new privileges but as a demand for equal standing with men under law and custom. By pairing “nothing more” with “nothing less,” it rejects both caricatures: that suffragists sought to dominate men, and that women should accept partial reforms. The reference to mobs and being “hung in effigy” underscores the social hostility reformers faced and casts perseverance as integral to the cause. The motto’s symmetry also functions rhetorically as a moral axiom—rights are universal and indivisible—placing women’s enfranchisement within a broader human-rights logic rather than a narrow, sex-specific grievance.