Suffrage Quotes · Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it…

— Vilfredo Pareto

“And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.”

— Richard M. Sherman

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

[On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt…

— Margaret Case Harriman

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

“Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral…

— Robert Service

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong…

— Emma Goldman

I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to…

— James Monroe

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can…

— Hillary Clinton

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful…

— John Dewey

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

— Cate Blanchett

In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense.…

— Fred Reed

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

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

— Aristotle

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters'…

— Nelson Mandela

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“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

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

— Matilda Joslyn Gage