David Suzuki Quotes

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

This nation ... has not yet reached the point of giving all men their rights by a suffrage amendment; three-fourths of the States are not ready

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

Votes for women didn’t come until the 1920’s. Votes for Blacks didn’t effectively come until the 1960’s.

As to those who have no landed property, ... the allowing them to vote for legislators is an impropriety.

In a democracy, a person's vote is their voice. For much of our history, however, not everyone's voice was welcome at the voting booth.

Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.

We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

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.

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.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

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

Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics...? Is it right that while the loafer, the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?... Is it right... that a mother... should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?

The right to vote belongs to every Polish citizen without distinction of sex, who, on the day of the proclamation of the elections, is twenty-one years of age

This House is not prepared to enfranchise all men.

The northern states, most of them, do not permit negroes to vote. Some of them have repeatedly and lately pronounced against it. Therefore, even if it were defensible as a principle for the Central Government to absorb by amendment the power to control the action of the States in such a matter, would it not be futile to ask three-quarters of the States to do for themselves and others, by ratifying such an amendment, the very thing most of them have already refused to do in their own cases?

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

I thought that we would wake up this morning and have the same rights as our husbands, grandsons and garbage men—but we are still begging to be let into our country's Constitution.

Women will vote by 1917.

Votes for Ladies