Feminism Quote by Louisa Lawson

In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen…

— Andrew Jackson

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and…

— Bainbridge Colby

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race,…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to…

— Marcus Garvey

Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not…

— Emma Goldman

The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These…

— Susan B. Anthony

“Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages,…

— Alexander Hamilton

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic…

— James Madison

“It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

— Lucy Burns

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore…

— Emmeline Pankhurst