Top 35 Women S Suffrage Quotes

#1. 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

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#2. Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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#3. 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

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#4. 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

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#5. If the day hadn't yet convinced him of the merits of women's suffrage, it had certainly convinced him of the justness of the movement for Rational Dress.

Graham Moore

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#6. 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

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#7. White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Women S Suffrage Quotes #1140459
#8. The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation today: a manifestation of the historical episodes of Jefferson and Henry as well as the Civil War, the Women's Suffrage movement, and the Civil Rights struggles.

Patrick Mendis

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#9. The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.

Winston Churchill

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#10. 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

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#11. I feel like giving back is in my blood.

Chaske Spencer

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#12. I want to do something to help people.

Jasmine Guinness

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

Oscar Wilde

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#14. 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

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#15. [Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that day. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see itit is inevitable.

Susan B. Anthony

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

Delphine De Girardin

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#17. 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

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#18. It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

Emmeline Pankhurst

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#19. However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.

Millicent Garrett Fawcett

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#20. If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men.

Millicent Garrett Fawcett

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#21. 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

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#22. I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood ...
I was raving, if only to myself.

Robin McKinley

Women S Suffrage Quotes #1795075
#23. There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.

Louisa Lawson

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#24. If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Victoria Claflin Woodhull

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#25. The two chief teachings of this religion are these," said Rumfoord: "Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. "Why

Kurt Vonnegut

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#26. I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

John Bright

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#27. To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise ...

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

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#28. There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.

Yvon Chouinard

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#29. 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

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

Thomas P.M. Barnett

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#31. It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

Laura Wade

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

Susan B. Anthony

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#33. We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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#34. In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.

Gloria Steinem

Women S Suffrage Quotes #161761
#35. Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Victoria Woodhull

Women S Suffrage Quotes #57292

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