#suffrage

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism. ↗

— May Wright Sewall

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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

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

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#authority #education #end #free #governments

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#human-rights #politics #slavery #suffrage #knowledge

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women. ↗

— Delphine de Girardin

#forgot #promises #proof #republic #suffrage

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#carry #freedom #half #one half #other

And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#gwenn-wright #katherine-demure #love-story #strong-heroine #suffrage

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States at this very hour. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#activism #agitation #dissent #human-rights #liberties

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#exercise #extension #franchise #great #invested