Universal Suffrage Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

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
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
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 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
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women. — Delphine de Girardin
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
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
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. — Rutherford B. Hayes
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
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
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. — C L R James
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
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
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
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
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery. — Otto Von Bismarck

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