Ballots Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

— Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in…

— Susan B. Anthony

Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine…How much more ridiculous…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid Sunday laws,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation today: a manifestation of the historical episodes…

— Patrick Mendis

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality…

— Louis D. Brandeis

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…

— Frederick Lenz

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…

— Winston Churchill

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

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