Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide… — Alice Roosevelt Longworth Copy Share Image
Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
“Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
While women were finally given the right to vote in the United States with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920,… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
Although universal suffrage may not be a panacea for all social problems, it does have a profound bearing on the democratic development… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
Suffrage is not a right afforded to everyone. Rather, voting is a privilege in the United States - and a hard-earned privilege… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
I need [Beijing's] trust in order to develop universal suffrage. The more suspicions being expressed, the more difficulty we'll have in moving… — Donald Tsang Copy Share Image
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrage of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image