Top 1200 Suffrage Movement Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

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

Even when we were under the Spanish flag, we had a movement that just wanted assimilation into Spain, a movement of autonomy - which has been the majority always - and a movement for separation. In that sense, Puerto Rico's political reality is very different from any place I know in the whole world.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

I am sick and tired of the myopia in the gay and lesbian movement. It'll doom the movement.

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.

When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

Madurai is a city with a long political history. It was at the centre of the anti-Brahmin movement, the anti-Hindi movement, the Dravidian movement, and was a pro-LTTE city. Yet, this city has elected me, the very antithesis of all these movements.

Hong Kongers deserve universal suffrage.

I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing.

In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.

My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

This is a movement. This is not Trump. This is not anything. This is a movement. Remember, it is a movement. We used to say silent majority. It`s not a silent majority, it`s really a noisy majority.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's a combination of the music of the movement and the church. Those mass meetings are where people got the energy to go on to the next day.

Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.

The anti-extradition movement is larger and much more organised than the Umbrella Movement in 2014.

To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

Every great movement and which the conservative movement is, of course, every great movement ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time and I think they need new fusion of energy.

Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.

I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.

The #MeToo movement is a very important movement. It's messy. And it's complicated. And there are places where it's going to overreach.

My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader or head quarters. Its place is the home of every Iranian who believes in equal rights. This is currently the strongest women's movement in the Middle East.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..