To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise. — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi 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
“Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.” — William Earl Maxwell 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
“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
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage. — Carrie Chapman Catt 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
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
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
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
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
It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“tainted by the heaps of pestilent offal it must sweep away. As Lord Bacon says (in that play falsely attributed to Shakespeare)—"Ay,… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through… — Andrew Jackson 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
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
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
“Socialists like Helen Keller did not think suffrage was enough. Blind and deaf, Keller fought for change with her spirit and her… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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
In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and… — Alice Stone Blackwell 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
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 gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the… — Al Gore 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
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. — 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
[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own… — Noah Webster 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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