Quotes on Woman Suffrage

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

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.

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.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

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.

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.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

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