Suffrage Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.