Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of… — Ellen DuBois Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the wider community supports achieving the goal of universal suffrage for 2017 according to law. I also believe… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
The women's suffrage movement was the gateway that led to women having the opportunities to achieve monumental milestones and accomplish significant achievements… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
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
I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to… — James Monroe 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
“tainted by the heaps of pestilent offal it must sweep away. As Lord Bacon says (in that play falsely attributed to Shakespeare)—"Ay,… — Bayard Taylor 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
[On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual’s rights except the “right” to be alternately oppressor or oppressed.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide… — Alice Roosevelt Longworth Copy Share Image
Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
I need [Beijing's] trust in order to develop universal suffrage. The more suspicions being expressed, the more difficulty we'll have in moving… — Donald Tsang Copy Share Image
Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful… — John Dewey 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
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Suffrage is not a right afforded to everyone. Rather, voting is a privilege in the United States - and a hard-earned privilege… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
While women were finally given the right to vote in the United States with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920,… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
Although universal suffrage may not be a panacea for all social problems, it does have a profound bearing on the democratic development… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
![“[On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt to be more interested in phenomena like meteors than in the slow growth of a mighty tree. Wait ten years, and the politicians will one day wake up and say…” quote by Margaret Case Harriman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2e/margaret-case-harriman-41069_courses_on-women-getting-the-vote-the-newspapers_706739.jpg)
![“... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.” quote by Alice Roosevelt Longworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fff/alice-roosevelt-longworth-2166_differences_woman-suffrage-has-made-little-differenc_262349.jpg)
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