Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women,… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“We fight for autonomy over so many areas of our lives - for decency and democracy and freedom, for suffrage, for the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny'… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
You bring up identity politics and I think that this is really causing a divide in the American left where we're rallying… — Sam Rasoul 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
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. — Gloria Steinem 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
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
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY 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
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
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
All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs… — Millicent Fawcett 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
Our system has adopted universal suffrage, which points toward open and easy access to the ballot, but our heritage in political exclusivity… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
“It may be said that because woman recognizes the awful toll she is made to pay to the Church, State, and the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It's not enough to have a few women's studies courses. Why is it more important to study Paul Revere's midnight ride than… — Judy Chicago 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
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
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
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
