Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism.

In 1915 Sewall chaired an Organized Conference of Women Workers to Promote Peace and in 1915 May Wright Sewall was a member of Henry Ford's Peace Expedition. Sewall became interested in woman suffrage.

In 1915 Sewall chaired an Organized Conference of Women Workers to Promote Peace and in 1915 May Wright Sewall was a member of Henry Ford's Peace Expedition. She attended a national convention in 1878. She was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin in the United States.