Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
“I have found life to be merciless, allowing the suffrage of innocents.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan 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
I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question. — Alice Paul Copy Share Image
The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
“This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral… — Robert Service Copy Share Image
... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous… — Catharine Beecher 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 State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly… — Edmund Barton Copy Share Image
While, legally, universal suffrage has been achieved for all undetained citizens over the age of 18, many people still find it difficult… — Dawn Foster 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
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all… — Abraham Lincoln 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
The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage,… — Emma Goldman 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
We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense.… — Fred Reed 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
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan… — George Washington 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
“One merely had to imagine a woman candidate doing what Trump did, from lying to leering, to understand what latitude masculinity possesses.… — Rebecca Solnit 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
“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
“But Mather's smile faded as he thought of what other provisions the charter contained. What would the godly say when they learned… — Marion L. Starkey Copy Share Image
The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes. She can give… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi 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
I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
“To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.” — Charlotte Brontë 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 rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close. — Jeannette Rankin 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
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
