Which Womens Suffrage Quotes & Sayings

The people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. — Christina Baker Kline

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted. — Gale Sayers

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage. — Carrie Chapman Catt

Religion, in refusing to degrade you, has placed in doubt the crime imputed to you; the government, in surrounding your case with mystery and shadow, gives reason for belief in some error, committed in fatal moments; and all the Philippines, in venerating your memory and calling you martyrs, in no way acknowledges your guilt. — Jose Rizal

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? — Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — Oscar Wilde

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. — Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Alison's words were falling stones. Carole reached to grab them, to hold them, to put them in order. It was so hard, the stones so heavy. The words kept coming. Her daughter's face was before her, her lovely, dear face, and she could no nothing to help her. Not now, not while the voices were drowning her out, burying sense and decency and love. — Sonja Yoerg

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry. — Adrian Rogers

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim. — Joshua Jackson

India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn't matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life. — Abhijit Naskar

While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial. — Jessie Daniel Ames

It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it. — Ben Stein

I tried chemo, but chemo and I didn't agree, so we didn't persist. — Joan Kirner

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. — Susan B. Anthony