#suffrage

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

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

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power! ↗

— Jennifer Worth

#women-s-rights #equality

Suffrage is the pivotal right. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#right #suffrage

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs. ↗

— Emmeline Pankhurst

#history #politics #suffragette #women #men

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

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#ballot #both #choice #commonly #duty

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#been #contented #convinced #demanded #i