Black Quote by Horace Greeley

Suffrage is not a right afforded to everyone. Rather, voting is a privilege in the United States - and a hard-earned privilege at that.

— Chelsea Manning

“Woman’s demand for equal suffrage is based largely on the contention that woman must have the equal right in all affairs of society. No…

— Emma Goldman

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

“Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual’s rights except the “right” to be alternately oppressor or oppressed.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

— James Madison

“They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a moment; they…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

— Victoria Woodhull

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown,…

— Jan Schakowsky

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

— Susan B. Anthony

For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in…

— Michelle Alexander

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

— E. W. Howe

Suffrage is a common right for citizenship

— Victoria Woodhull