Suffrage Quotes - Page 6

• If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Liberty, Majority

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• To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Party, Equality

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• It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Men, Dresses

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.121

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• 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.

  Ellen DuBois

  Words Of Wisdom, Empowerment, Causes

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• You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.

  Stella Benson

  Thinking, Hysteria, Movement

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

  Alice S Rossi

  Long, Facts, Vote

  Alice S. Rossi (1973). “The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir”, p.407, UPNE

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• The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Numbers, Women's Suffrage, Firsts

  Millicent Fawcett (2017). “Women's Suffrage”, p.39, Litres

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• I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Mother, School, Years

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.7, 谷月社

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• France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Home, America, Democracy

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• While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

  Horace Greeley

  Men, Rights, White Man

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• 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.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Independence, United States, Movement

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• In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.

  Alice Stone Blackwell

  Struggle, Thinking, Agency

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• Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fashion, Looks, Racist

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• Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

  Frank Chodorov

  People, Liberty, Guarantees

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.88, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.

  Andrew Jackson

  People, Decision, Liberty

  United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson), Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual Messages, Veto Messages, Proclamation, & C”, p.179

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• there were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that they, as men, should say so. Our business as women was to recognize this and act accordingly.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Men, Vote, Natural

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• To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Public Opinion, Merit, Proof

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

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  Years, Democracy, Earning

  Thomas P.M. Barnett (2009). “Great Powers: America and the World After Bush”, p.69, Penguin

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• Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.

  Francois Hollande

  President, France, Economy

  "François Hollande: from marshmallow man to Sarkozy's nemesis?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2012.

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• American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

  Marcus Garvey

  People, Progress, Labels

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• The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Needs, Movement

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.117, 谷月社

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• When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Congratulations, Men, Giving

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

  Edna O'Brien

  Women, Needs, Vote

  Edna O'Brien (2012). “Country Girl”, p.124, Faber & Faber

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• The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Philosophy, People, Movement

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• The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Prayer, Offense And Defense, Weapons

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