What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question. — Alice Paul Copy Share Image
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise. — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. — Samuel Parr Copy Share Image
We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffragewas right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response. — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
“Every hope of the existence of church and of state, and of civilization itself, hangs upon our arduous effort to defeat the… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image
While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been… — Jessie Daniel Ames Copy Share Image
The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
“It may be said that because woman recognizes the awful toll she is made to pay to the Church, State, and the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“To suppress the vote is to make a mockery of democracy. And those who do so are essentially acknowledging that their policies… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Woman’s demand for equal suffrage is based largely on the contention that woman must have the equal right in all affairs of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes. She can give… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.” — William Earl Maxwell Copy Share Image
It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
“And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.” — Richard M. Sherman Copy Share Image
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
