Pivotal Quote by Susan B. Anthony

Suffrage is a common right for citizenship

— Victoria Woodhull

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

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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

— James Madison

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

— Victoria Woodhull

The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy.

— Jeff Van Drew

Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“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

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a…

— Ambrose Bierce

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage…

— John C. Calhoun

When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to the possession…

— Clara Zetkin