Samuel Clarke Pomeroy Quotes

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

I should prefer to see incorporated into the Constitution a guarantee of universal suffrage; as we cannot get the required two-thirds for that, I cordially support this proposition as the next best

If the Constitution does not allow women to vote, then the Constitution should be amended or abolished.

Women are citizens, children are citizens; but they do not exercise the elective franchise by virtue of their citizenship.

The right to vote is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in the struggle for civil rights.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

The right to vote ... depends on the legislation of the various States

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

Votes for Ladies

The right to vote with no ifs, ands, or buts, that's the key. When the Negroes get that, they'll have every politician, north and south, east and west, kissing their ass, begging for their support.

Both experience and reason demonstrate that the male seeks the welfare and happiness of the female even above his own interest. The Negro can not get justice or fair treatment without the suffrage. Woman can make no such claim, for man accords her not only every privilege which he himself enjoys but the additional privilege of protection

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

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

The right to vote freely for the candidate of one’s choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government

I demand ... the franchise for all loyal citizens

This House is not prepared to enfranchise all men.

Women shall have the same rights and privileges under the law as men in the exercise of suffrage ... and in all other respects.

Women, what age soever they are of, are not considered as having a sufficient acquired discretion to exercise the franchise

Convicts and lunatics have no vote for Parliament. Should all women be classed with those?

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

Voting in Florida is like there’s some kind of goody in a box and you want to get it, but you’ve got to be persistent to get it.

Women will vote by 1917.

To-day is holden at Worcester [MA] the "Woman's Convention." I think that as long as they have not equal rights of property and right of voting they are not on the right footing.