Suffrage Quotes

75 quotes by 58 authors

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been… — Ida B. Wells
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. — Susan B. Anthony
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in… — Mark Steyn
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one. — Thomas P.M. Barnett
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to… — John Boyle O'Reilly
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy… — Gloria Steinem
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. — Gloria Steinem
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan
I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will… — John Bright
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the… — George Washington
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery. — Otto Von Bismarck
Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism. — May Wright Sewall
Suffrage is a common right for citizenship — Victoria Woodhull

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