Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it,… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Social justice, protecting the right to vote and being engaged in politics has been a hallmark of my sorority since its founding… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria… — Stella Benson 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
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
there were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that… — Christabel Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrage of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
When Britain signed up to the European Convention and its later protocols, the words 'universal suffrage' were deleted from the 'right to… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women,… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as… — Horace Greeley 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
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden,… — Bainbridge Colby Copy Share Image
I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full… — Louis D. Brandeis 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
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States in 1920, and he was made a fool of - his wife almost… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Our system has adopted universal suffrage, which points toward open and easy access to the ballot, but our heritage in political exclusivity… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
