Quotes About Suffrage

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

With universal suffrage, every chief executive candidate must face the seven million people of Hong Kong, explain his or her political platform and mission, and win over the people by addressing their interests and concerns.

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

Some people say that given the government's firm stance against genuine universal suffrage, our demands are impossible to achieve. But I believe activism is about making the impossible possible.

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

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

Those who care about constitutional development should look beyond universal suffrage for the chief executive election and turn their sights to universal suffrage for Legco as well.

Hong Kongers deserve universal suffrage.

While, legally, universal suffrage has been achieved for all undetained citizens over the age of 18, many people still find it difficult to vote in elections.

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

Women need men like fish need bicycles.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.