Purple as everyone knows is the royal colour. It stands for the royal blood that flows in the veins of every suffragette, the instinct of freedom and dignity…white stands for purity in private and public life…green is the colour of hope and the emblem of spring.
The colours enable us to make that appeal to the eye which is so irresistible. The result of our processions is that this movement becomes identified in the mind of the onlooker with colour, gay sound, movement, and beauty.
While many color schemes have been used over the years by women's rights organizations, the purple-white-green scheme has remained the one most closely identified with women's suffrage. It eventually made its way to America to join the yellow/gold color as a symbol of votes for women.