Nellie McLung's niece Ruth Scott says: "I remember when she would come onto the platform and stand there completely composed , looking over her audience. Then her smile would come, lighting her face and crinkling the skin around her cinnamon brown eyes, radiating the warmth that seemed to gather everyone close to her. She has been described as "a spellbinder" and she was! Her audience laughed with her. And when the program was over they felt they had made a friend and pressed forward to shake her hand." |
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"She has the gift of presenting political issues with a strong simplicity which captivates the better inclined and the more generous impulses of her hearers. Her stories and illustrations make their point with rapier-like incisiveness and sledgehammer force. Her audience knows her instinctively for what she is- a sincere, earnest, and fearless fighter." |
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