#suffrage

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

#every #farthest #fully #granted #right

In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man. ↗

— B.F. Skinner

#leadership #suffrage #leadership

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism. ↗

— May Wright Sewall

#despotism #guarantee #only #suffrage #universal

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#gender-roles #suffrage #womens-rights #men

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. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#battle #conducted #demand #men #only

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#choose #city #consider #efforts #intellectual

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. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#did #education #elevation #emancipation #father

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#citizenship #common #escaped #logically #right

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

— Victoria Woodhull

#differently #guerilla #miserable #opposition #succeed

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#principle #radical #right #sound #suffrage