Top Suffrage Quotes

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To hi...

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

Suffrage Definition

(n.) A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.

(n.) Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.

(n.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.

(n.) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed.

(n.) Aid; assistance.

(n.) The right to vote; franchise.

(v. t.) To vote for; to elect.

Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87

The substance of what I have to say to the disadvantage of the theory and practice of universal suffrage is that it tends to invert what I should have regarded as the true and natural relation between...

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?

If I am asked, What do you propose to substitute for universal suffrage? Practically, What have you to recommend? I answer at once, Nothing. The whole current of thought and feeling, the whole stream...

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.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Yetta thought.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

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

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

The thing they wanted they called the Vote, but that demand so hollow, so eyeless, had all the terrifying effect of a mask. Behind that mask was a formless invincible discontent with the lot of womanh...