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
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
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
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
... [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
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
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
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
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
... 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
To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise. — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi 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
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
[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
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning. — 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
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without… — Carrie Chapman Catt 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
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
... 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
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
... 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
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