The following is an excerpt from the address Secretary Clinton gave in acceptance of the Alice Award, named for suffragette Alice Paul.  Sewall-Belmont House bestows the award annually to honor outstanding contributions in breaking barriers for women. 
Alice Paul was a visionary and a pioneer. She believed that gender equality was a moral imperative as well as a foundation for progress. And her struggle for women’s rights was built on the premise that no society or nation can reach its full potential if half of the population is left behind.
Now, we have seen …