Suffrage Quotes

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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. — Rutherford B. Hayes
I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out… — Emmeline Pankhurst
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I… — Salmon P. Chase
The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against… — Millicent Fawcett
In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by… — Andrew Jackson
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage. — Carrie Chapman Catt
Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew… — Francois Hollande
A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the… — Anna Howard Shaw
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. — C L R James
The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with… — Napoleon Bonaparte
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage. — Napoleon Bonaparte
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get… — Marcus Garvey
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and… — Frederick Lenz
A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is,… — George Bernard Shaw
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the… — Rutherford B. Hayes
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens… — James Madison
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants;… — Michel Onfray
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. — Anna Quindlen
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that… — Noah Webster

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