“And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for… — Louisa Lawson Copy Share Image
While, legally, universal suffrage has been achieved for all undetained citizens over the age of 18, many people still find it difficult… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
While universal suffrage remains an ideal yet to be attained, if you're lucky enough to be able to vote, don't let that… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly… — Edmund Barton Copy Share Image
I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that… — John Bright Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
“Be militant in your own way! Those of you who can break windows, break them. Those of you who can still further… — Fran Abrams Copy Share Image
You bring up identity politics and I think that this is really causing a divide in the American left where we're rallying… — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined,… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense.… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
When Britain signed up to the European Convention and its later protocols, the words 'universal suffrage' were deleted from the 'right to… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
there were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that… — Christabel Pankhurst Copy Share Image
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it,… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Social justice, protecting the right to vote and being engaged in politics has been a hallmark of my sorority since its founding… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden,… — Bainbridge Colby Copy Share Image
To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women,… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
“Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual’s rights except the “right” to be alternately oppressor or oppressed.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
