Suffrage Quotes

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

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country. - Noah Webster

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

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

We struggle for freedom every day of our lives. From our founding fathers to the Civil War through the suffrage movement, the American civil rights movement and today with the Patriot Act. Frankly, it's a story we have to keep telling to each other. - Christian W. Overland

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

We believe that it's important to achieve universal suffrage in Hong Kong as soon as possible, that the people of Hong Kong are ready for democracy, and that the sooner that a timetable for achieving universal suffrage is established, the better. - Adam Ereli

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

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism. - May Wright Sewall