I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of… — Ellen DuBois Copy Share Image
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The women's suffrage movement was the gateway that led to women having the opportunities to achieve monumental milestones and accomplish significant achievements… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
“Ex-offenders are expected to pay fines and court costs, and submit paperwork to multiple agencies in an effort to win back a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
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
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“These new friends had fought for suffrage, they had won, and now they were determined to use the vote to advance women’s… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
Implementing universal suffrage for the 2017 election is a big step forward along our road to democracy. This is not only a… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
“But Mather's smile faded as he thought of what other provisions the charter contained. What would the godly say when they learned… — Marion L. Starkey Copy Share Image
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
It's not enough to have a few women's studies courses. Why is it more important to study Paul Revere's midnight ride than… — Judy Chicago 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
“Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral… — Robert Service Copy Share Image
Those who care about constitutional development should look beyond universal suffrage for the chief executive election and turn their sights to universal… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters'… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women. — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one. — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
