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
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
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
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
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
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
... [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
“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
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
Implementing universal suffrage for the 2017 election is a big step forward along our road to democracy. This is not only a… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
“These new friends had fought for suffrage, they had won, and now they were determined to use the vote to advance women’s… — Laura Shapiro 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
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
As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
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
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
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
“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
Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States in 1920, and he was made a fool of - his wife almost… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to… — Jeannette Rankin 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
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
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
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question. — Alice Paul Copy Share Image
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan 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 large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image