Quotes About Suffragist

Heavens, no! Political meetings. I am a suffragist," she told us proudly. "And if I were permitted to vote, I should vote Liberal. That is what galls him the most. He's the most appalling Tory.

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.

No votee, no eatee.

Suffragist Susan B. Anthony introduced her as a living legend at the twenty-eighth annual convention of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association, held in 1904.

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

The fight for women's rights hasn't come in waves. Wonder Woman was a product of the suffragist, feminist, and birth control movements of the 1900s and 1910s and became a source of the women's liberation and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The fight for women's rights has been a river, wending.

Mary Woolley wasn't only a suffragist; she was also a feminist. Feminism is not a prejudice, she said, It is a principle.

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists," as one feminist explained. Feminists rejected the idea of women as reformers whose moral authority came from their differentness from men—women were supposedly, by nature, more tender and loving and chaste and pure—and advocated instead women's full and equal participation in politics, work, and the arts, on the grounds that women were in every way equal to men.