Suffrage Quotes
75 quotes by 58 authors
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take…
— Susan B. Anthony
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth.…
— Susan B. Anthony
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It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
— Frank Chodorov
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
— Susan B. Anthony
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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 that the glittering…
— Max Lerner
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The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.
— James Madison
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Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle,…
— Carrie Chapman Catt
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Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a…
— Nelson Mandela
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While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.
— Jessie Daniel Ames
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There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we…
— Louisa Lawson
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The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who…
— John Dewey
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
— Victoria Woodhull
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Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic…
— Ellen DuBois
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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it…
— Frank Moore Colby
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What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as laws are natural,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a…
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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