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

Richard Flanagan

" Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

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

" In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. "

" Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. "

Victoria Woodhull

" Suffrage is the pivotal right. "

Susan B. Anthony

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

Rutherford B. Hayes

" We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted. "

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

" When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men. "

" When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to the possession of a certain amount of property, but that it should be inherent in the woman herself. "

" 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

" Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one. "

Thomas P.M. Barnett

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