Quotes on Suffragists

There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.

It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.

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.

No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.

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.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.