The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. — Samuel Parr Copy Share Image
“Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.” — William Earl Maxwell Copy Share Image
It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise. — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women. — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters'… — Nelson Mandela 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
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one. — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Those who care about constitutional development should look beyond universal suffrage for the chief executive election and turn their sights to universal… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined,… — Lucy Stone 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
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
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
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
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
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state… — Carrie Chapman Catt 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
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
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
“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
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
“Yes, I may be considered an enemy of woman; but if I can help her see the light, I shall not complain.… — Emma Goldman 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
