Suffrage Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. — Frank Chodorov
Suffrage is the pivotal right. — Susan B. Anthony
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
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison
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
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.Â Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a… — Nelson Mandela
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
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
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who… — John Dewey
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. — Victoria Woodhull
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
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
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
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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