Quotes about Suffrage

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If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men. — Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and de — Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. — Frederick Douglass
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 — Frederick Douglass
Imagine if one should drag an innocent passer-by from the street to the operating room of a nearby hospital and force hi — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
Just as we tell women today to vote, in honour of the suffragettes who campaigned for the right to do so, we owe it to t — Anna Kessel, Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives
Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burden — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Solitude of Self
We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a 
broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders ou — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible
It is obvious to you that the struggle will be an unequal one, but I shall make it - I shall make it as long as I have a — Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story
In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to beli — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
So then the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merged to create the Nationa — Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet
Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its gre — Mona Rodriguez
Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381). — Mona Rodriguez
Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57 — Mona Rodriguez
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 sens — Susan B. Anthony
And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid. — Richard M. Sherman, Vocal Selections from Walt Disney's Mary Poppins
Be militant in your own way! Those of you who can break windows, break them. Those of you who can still further attack t — Fran Abrams, Freedom's Cause: Lives of the Suffragettes
The Women’s March had restored my faith as I am sure it has introduced the young generation to the new wave of feminism. — Aysha Taryam
I think that's when I understood that you only ruined my life because my life needed ruining. Because the life you rejec — Courtney Milan, The Suffragette Scandal
The thing they wanted they called the Vote, but that demand so hollow, so eyeless, had all the terrifying effect of a ma — H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman