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
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Ex-offenders are expected to pay fines and court costs, and submit paperwork to multiple agencies in an effort to win back a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. — James Martineau 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
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as… — Mikhail Bakunin 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
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. — Rutherford B. Hayes 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
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
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry… — Susan B. Anthony 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
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
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
