The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
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
What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he… — Millicent Fawcett 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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan 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 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
“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
The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. — Samuel Parr 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
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
