For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds… — Carrie Chapman Catt 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
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
... [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
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
When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of… — Susan B. Anthony 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
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
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
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
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
The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer. — Carrie Chapman Catt 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