Suffrage Quotes
Collection of top 48 famous quotes about Suffrage
Suffrage Quotes & Sayings
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Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws ...
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
— C.L.R. James
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
There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.
— Louisa Lawson
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
— Gloria Steinem
Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.
— William Earl Maxwell
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
Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
— Frank Chodorov
And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.
— Richard M. Sherman
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
— Delphine De Girardin
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
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
— Susan B. Anthony
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
— Susan B. Anthony
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
— Susan B. Anthony
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
— James Martineau
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
— Washington Allston
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.
— Samuel Parr
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 worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.
— Jeannette Rankin
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?
— H.L. Mencken
Evil is not good's absence but gravity'severlasting bedrock and its fatal chains
inert, violent, the suffrage of our days. — Geoffrey Hill
In order to reach universal suffrage we need to build trust.
— Donald Tsang
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.
— Richard Flanagan
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
— Oscar Wilde
To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.
— Charlotte Bronte
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
— Victoria Woodhull
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
the upper classes instinctively abandoned idleness and invented meritocracy lest universal suffrage deprive them of everything they owned.
— Thomas Piketty
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
— Susan B. Anthony
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
— Frederick Douglass
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
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
