Argument Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois Download Open image “Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.” — W. E. B. Du Bois ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Every Suffrage Women Women's Suffrage
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Every hope of the existence of church and of state, and of civilization itself, hangs upon our arduous effort to defeat the doctrine of… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image
When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote narrative in… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Historically, black women have suffered tremendously, but today's black women are the triumph. We have choices, and that's what freedom is all about: having… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Above all else, our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not… — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Copy Share Image
Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
