Suffrage Quotes - Page 6

• It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

  Cate Blanchett

  Running, Men, White Man

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You bring up identity politics and I think that this is really causing a divide in the American left where we're rallying too much around identities. We should celebrate our heritage, we should organize by identity, but we shouldn't advocate and push for certain identities. We shouldn't talk about women suffrage, or plight of Muslims, or refugees; we should talk about our common American values.

  Sam Rasoul

  Thinking, Identity, Common

  "Sam Rasoul on Democracy, The Democratic Party and Identity". Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. May 10, 2017.

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• The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the civil rights movement when I was a young boy in the South, the women's suffrage movement when my mother was a young woman in Tennessee, the abolition movement much farther back, and the anti-apartheid movement when I was in the House of Representatives. All of these movements have one thing in common: the opposition to progress was rooted in an outdated understanding of morality.

  Al Gore

  Mother, Gay, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.

  Frances Harper

  Home, Political, Promise

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• ... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Law, Community, Vices

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• Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fashion, Looks, Racist

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• Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

  Frank Chodorov

  People, Liberty, Guarantees

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.88, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.

  Alice Stone Blackwell

  Struggle, Thinking, Agency

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• France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Home, America, Democracy

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• I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Mother, School, Years

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.7, 谷月社

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• 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

  Numbers, Women's Suffrage, Firsts

  Millicent Fawcett (2017). “Women's Suffrage”, p.39, Litres

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• In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.

  Andrew Jackson

  People, Decision, Liberty

  United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson), Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual Messages, Veto Messages, Proclamation, & C”, p.179

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• Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.

  Francois Hollande

  President, France, Economy

  "François Hollande: from marshmallow man to Sarkozy's nemesis?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2012.

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

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  Years, Democracy, Earning

  Thomas P.M. Barnett (2009). “Great Powers: America and the World After Bush”, p.69, Penguin

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• The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  People, Sovereign, Supreme

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• To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Public Opinion, Merit, Proof

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• American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

  Marcus Garvey

  People, Progress, Labels

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• It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

  Edna O'Brien

  Women, Needs, Vote

  Edna O'Brien (2012). “Country Girl”, p.124, Faber & Faber

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• The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Philosophy, People, Movement

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• The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Prayer, Offense And Defense, Weapons

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• there were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that they, as men, should say so. Our business as women was to recognize this and act accordingly.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Men, Vote, Natural

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• 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

  Congratulations, Men, Giving

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• The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Needs, Movement

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.117, 谷月社

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• While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

  Horace Greeley

  Men, Rights, White Man

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• The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Independence, United States, Movement

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