#suffrage

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

#every #farthest #fully #granted #right

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

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

Be militant in your own way! Those of you who can break windows, break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property...do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion. Take me if you dare! (Emmeline Pankhurst, 1912) ↗

— Fran Abrams

#pankhurst #rebellion #suffrage #death

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

#citizen #country #gives #his #immorality

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#citizenship #common #escaped #logically #right

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

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