Suffrage Quotes
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.
The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.
And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.
Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87
Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction men have been rewarded with monuments, with great songs and epics.
If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men.
However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.
Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.
Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.
