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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. — Susan B. Anthony

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it. — Anna Howard Shaw

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery. — Otto Von Bismarck

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results. — Hillary Clinton

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

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. — Rutherford B. Hayes

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise ... — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage. — Carrie Chapman Catt

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution. — William Earl Maxwell

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. — Susan B. Anthony

To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. — Charlotte Bronte

Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. — Anna Quindlen

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. — Victoria Claflin Woodhull

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. — Emma Goldman

We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response. — Chiang Kai-shek

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. — Frederick Douglass

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle.

Suffrage is the pivotal right. — Susan B. Anthony

the upper classes instinctively abandoned idleness and invented meritocracy lest universal suffrage deprive them of everything they owned. — Thomas Piketty

Universal suffrage is counter-revolution. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. — Samuel Parr

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — Oscar Wilde

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In order to reach universal suffrage we need to build trust. — Donald Tsang

Evil is not good's absence but gravity's
everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains
inert, violent, the suffrage of our days. — Geoffrey Hill

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? — H.L. Mencken

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close. — Jeannette Rankin

If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men. — Millicent Garrett Fawcett

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women. — John Bright

The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson