Quotes About Suffrage

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.

Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied?

Until June 26, 1918, all Texans could vote except "idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women.

Is freedom "the bare privilege of not being chained?" he asked. "If this is all, then freedom is a bitter mockery, a cruel delusion, and it may well be questioned whether slavery were not better. Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman of liberty." Garfield

The whole damn thing started when they gave women the vote.

Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The only quality necessary for being a citizen (i.e., a co-legislator), other than the natural one (that he is neither a child nor a woman), is that he be his own master, consequently that he have some property to support himself.

So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.

I come from a place that is very politically sophisticated and progressive. New Zealand was the first place to give women the right to vote.

Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

The ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote marked a major turning point for America.

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.

who held title to all the land and its produce, could vote down decisions by the male leaders of the League and demand that an issue be reconsidered. Under this regime women were so much better off than their counterparts in Europe that nineteenth-century U.S. feminists like Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, all of whom lived in Haudenosaunee country, drew inspiration from their lot.

Women would then need to resort to the ballot box to request that protection—assuming the majority sees fit to give them the right/privilege to vote.

I never loved anyone so much that I thought it would last. In fact, I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. (Susan B. Anthony being interviewed by Nellie Bly)

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

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.

of their own, one that will not support suffrage, and I'm afraid the Liberal Party leadership may prefer their priorities. What good is fighting for women's rights if those rights don't include being able to vote?

You know, Winifred, you begin to make me wonder if all women should have the right to vote.

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.