Suffrage Quotes

75 quotes by 58 authors

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and… — Andrew Jackson
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even… — Bainbridge Colby
Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory. — Carrie Chapman Catt
What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active… — Millicent Fawcett
The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to be vigorously advocated… — Clara Zetkin
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and… — Ernestine Rose
The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social… — Winston Churchill
What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used,… — Hillary Clinton
I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrage of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that… — James Monroe
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is… — John Boyle O'Reilly
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And… — Barbara Kingsolver
I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close. — Jeannette Rankin
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women. — Delphine de Girardin
In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has… — Alice Stone Blackwell
Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did… — John Sergeant Wise
When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for… — Clara Zetkin
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. — Victoria Woodhull
So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to… — Isabel Allende
France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was… — Fareed Zakaria
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great… — Edmund Barton

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