Women's Suffrage Quotes

• I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)

  Susan B. Anthony

  Atheist, Fighting, Years

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• There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Motivational, Women, Law

  In The Arena.

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Sad, Women

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• Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Shadow, Pathways, Women's Suffrage

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon, Susan Brownell Anthony (2000). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873”, p.126, Rutgers University Press

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  If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  Abigail Adams

  Women, Memorable, Equality

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

  Bella Abzug

  Jobs, Women, Memorable

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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• Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Sex, Women, Law

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• It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Simple, Thinking

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  If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Women, Memorable, History

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• No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Women, Law, Political

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• Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Witty, Strong Women, Independent

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Women, People, History

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspiring, Girl, Strong Women

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• The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

  Lucretia Mott

  Inspiring, Justice, Feminist

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• There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Order, Nwo

  "A Photographer Traveled The World Snapping Portraits Of Women And Girls ‘Living On The Edge’" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2015.

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Inspiration, People

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Courage, Peace, Integrity

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Years, Two, Would Be

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• Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Reform, World, Women's Suffrage

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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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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• While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

  Jessie Daniel Ames

  Women, Political, Millennium

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• What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Political, Movement, Women's Suffrage

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• I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Support, Needs, Women's Suffrage

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

  Abigail Adams

  Wedding, Husband, Women

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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