Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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

In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

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

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

A referendum in many of our states means to defer woman suffrage until the most ignorant, most narrow-minded, most un-American, are ready for it.

American women who know the history of this country will always resent the fact that American men chose to enfranchise Negroes fresh from slavery before enhancing their wives and mothers.

Far be it for me to encourage women to vote, or take an active part in politics in the present state of our government. Her right to the elective franchise, however, is the same, and should be yielded to her, whether she exercise that right or not.

Woman suffrage has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman’s vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

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.

... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.

They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

I'm beginning to think that women should be denied the vote. Their hormones rage; they are too emotional.

American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.

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

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

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

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.