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Younger appeared reluctantly as a keynoter at the request of fellow suffragist Alice Paul but managed to speak eloquently of Millholland. "She went into battle, a laugh on her lips," Younger said. "Obstacles inspired her, discouragement urged her on. She loved work and she loved battle. She loved life and laughter and light, and above all else, she loved liberty."

Less than two weeks after the memorial service for Millholland in New York City, Younger accompanied Paul and nearly 300 other suffragists to the White House where they demanded President Woodrow Wilson call for Congress to pass a suffrage bill. Younger was among those who spoke in the East Room on January 9, 1917. Younger told the president to his face that it was his duty to "decide whether the life of this brilliant, dearly-loved woman whose glorious death we commemorate today, shall be the last sacrifice of life demanded of American women in their struggle for self-government."