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  • The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to be vigorously advocated both by agitation and by parliamentary means. When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

    Country   Party   Mean  
  • Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

    Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Years   Two   Would Be  
  • I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)

  • All men would be tyrants if they could.

    Men   Tyrants   Would Be  
    The History of the Kentish Petition addenda, l. 11 (1712 - 1713) See Abigail Adams 1
  • While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

  • It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over.

    Women   Simple   Thinking  
  • It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex.

    Sex   Spring   Rain  
  • Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

    Sex   Women   Law  
  • If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

  • Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  • No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

    Women   Law   Political  
  • Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • 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.

  • I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

  • The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.

  • The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

  • If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

    Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2
  • 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.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • 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.

    Source: www.slate.com
  • Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

    Wedding   Husband   Women  
    Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2
  • There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!

  • The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

    Jobs   Women   Memorable  
    Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press
  • Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon, Susan Brownell Anthony (2000). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873”, p.126, Rutgers University Press
  • Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like Josephine Goldmark, his sister-in-law, where he writes a Brandeis brief which convinced the court to uphold maximum hour laws for women by collecting all these facts and empirical evidence.

    Source: www.slate.com
  • Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

    Women   People   History  
    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • 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 (2017). “Women's Suffrage”, p.39, Litres
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