Emma Goldman Quotes

Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.

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

With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

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.

As Suffragettes we could not be pacifists at any price.

I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.

We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote "other" to support my particular taste.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue. They didn't just stand up and salute when told to go to war. Women finally began to realize a more equal place in our society.

If you care about women's rights, you can't not vote.

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.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.