Change Quote by Geoffrey Vickers

“In February 1866, he testified before Congress to oppose suffrage for former slaves: “My own opinion is that, at this time, they cannot vote…

— Ron Chernow

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

— Ken Livingstone

“The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote, so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man.”

— Liane Moriarty

I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

“Two hundred years ago when slavery was going on it was illegal to educate a slave, particularly to teach them to read. Why do…

— Ben Carson

there were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that they, as…

— Christabel Pankhurst

“A depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement - these…

— Jill Stein

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

— Victoria Woodhull

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to…

— Anonymous

“About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.”

— Christina Stead

“You're blindly following a tradition that says because women didn't leave behind voluminous records of their thoughts and deeds, then they didn't have any…

— Christi Phillips