Jesse Jackson Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

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.

Yes, I'm a suffragist.

All theories of chivalry and generosity and vicarious representation fall, before the fact that woman has been grossly wronged by man. That being the case, the only modest and honest thing for man to do is to say, "Henceforward have a voice in making your own laws." Till this is done, she has no sure safeguard, since otherwise the same men who made the old barbarous laws may at any time restore them.

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and that a woman's right to vote was not even a century old. But it was great Americans who stood up, some dying for the cause, to make our country better.

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!

I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.

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

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

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

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

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.

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