Quotes About Suffrage

The first place in the world to grant female suffrage was Wyoming in 1869, earning it the nickname the Equality State.

precarious tranquillity had indeed been achieved in Greece, and it seemed that a free democratic Government, founded on universal suffrage and secret ballot, might be established there within a reasonable time. But Roumania and Bulgaria had passed into the grip of Soviet military occupation, Hungary and Yugoslavia lay in the shadow of the battlefield, and Poland, though liberated from the Germans, had merely exchanged one conqueror for another.

The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man.

These 21st-century 'teavangelicals,' who represent a considerable segment of the Republican party, are vastly different from their 19th-century forebears. Nineteenth-century evangelicals were concerned with societal ills such as temperance, slavery, the rise of industrialisation and suffrage.

It takes some believing, but it was not until 1869 that Emily Davies founded Girton as a Cambridge college for women, and when, in 1896, the university came to vote on whether women should be allowed to face examinations for degrees, The Times printed train timetables, to enable London-based graduates to travel to Cambridge to vote against the proposition. The university did not allow women full membership until 1948.

... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

The question of suffrage is one which is likely to agitate the public so long as a portion of the citizens of the nation are excluded from its privileges in any State.

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?

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

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists, as one feminist explained.

We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-Democracy, is "the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the present-day state."

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England.

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.

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.

A consensus on realising the goal of universal suffrage is not unattainable if we bear the common good in mind, move a step further, and try to resolve the differences or even stop insisting on some of one's own views.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

Republicans proposed women's suffrage as early as 1878, but it was voted down by a Democrat-controlled Congress. Republicans

In Britain, Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809–98) opposed suffrage because to involve women in politics would be, he said, 'to trespass upon the delicacy, the purity, the refinement, the elevation of their nature'.

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

The difficulties women faced in gaining the vote, like much of women's history, are often overlooked or forgotten or marginalized. Many younger women do not even know the story of the movement. It behooves us all to make a concerted effort to commemorate the triumphs of women and to tell their stories to the next generation. Victories cannot be taken for granted. There

Yet I still remember how our white suffragist sisters barred us from attending their conventions in 1901 and 1903.

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.