Suffrage Best Quotes
Collection of top 34 famous quotes about Suffrage Best
Suffrage Best Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Suffrage Best quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
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
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'severlasting 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
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson