If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. – Ida B. Wells
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. – Gloria Steinem
The first organised opposition by women to women’s suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women. – Millicent Fawcett
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. – John Boyle O’Reilly
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. – Richard Flanagan
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. – Victoria Woodhull
