The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. — Susan B. Anthony 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
“And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.” — Richard M. Sherman Copy Share Image
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for… — Louisa Lawson Copy Share Image
“And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are… — 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
We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response. — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffragewas right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been… — Jessie Daniel Ames Copy Share Image
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and… — Alice Stone Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Socialists like Helen Keller did not think suffrage was enough. Blind and deaf, Keller fought for change with her spirit and her… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew… — John Boyle O'Reilly 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
“To suppress the vote is to make a mockery of democracy. And those who do so are essentially acknowledging that their policies… — Dan Rather 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
“Woman’s demand for equal suffrage is based largely on the contention that woman must have the equal right in all affairs of… — 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
The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Every hope of the existence of church and of state, and of civilization itself, hangs upon our arduous effort to defeat the… — Robert Lewis Dabney 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
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
[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see… — Susan B. Anthony 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
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are… — Marcus Garvey 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
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