“Quotes”
Suffrage
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. … Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” ~ Susan B. Anthony
“The best protection any woman can have… is courage.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.” ~ Lucy Stone
“Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.” ~ Anna Quindlen
“If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” ~ Sojourner Truth
“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.” ~ Dorothy Day
“Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn’t make sense not to use both.” ~ Jeannette Rankin
“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” ~ Alice Paul
“To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.” ~ Carrie Chapman Catt
“I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.” ~ Sarah Moore Grimke