Suffrage Quotations

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.

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

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.

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.

Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage alone would be a sufficient guarantee. It is the conflict of opposing interests which renders it the most difficult work of man.

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Most historians consider ladies teas to be the foundation of what would eventually become the suffrage rights legislation.

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

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.

In order to reach universal suffrage we need to build trust.

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.

The Suffrage Law would need to be adapted to the 1999 Constitution to provide for some defense of minority's representation.

Both the central government and this administration are actively leading this community towards universal suffrage in an orderly fashion. I am 60 years of age. I certainly want to see universal suffrage taking place in Hong Kong in my time.

I suggest we work on all these elements and reach the final destination of universal suffrage as quickly as possible.

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

He that finds his knowledge narrow, and his arguments weak, and by consequence his suffrage not much regarded, is sometimes in hope of gaining that attention by his clamours which he cannot otherwise obtain, and is pleased with remembering that at la

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.