Suffrage Quotes

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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

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

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

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

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

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

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.

... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

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

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

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.

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

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

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

While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

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

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

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

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

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

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.

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

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.

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.

The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.

I need [Beijing's] trust in order to develop universal suffrage. The more suspicions being expressed, the more difficulty we'll have in moving towards the final destination.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.