Universal Suffrage Quotes

• A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

  Edmund Barton

  Exercise, People, States

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• Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Intelligent, Should Have, Justice

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

  C. L. R. James

  Government, Paris, Democracy

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  Fuimos nosotros, el pueblo; no nosotros, los ciudadanos blancos varones; ni siquiera nosotros, los ciudadanos varones; sino nosotros, todo el pueblo, quienes formamos la Unión..... Los hombres, sus derechos y nada más; las mujeres, sus derechos y nada menos

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mujeres fuertes, Igualdad, Blanco

  Lema de The Revolution (periódico), 8 de enero de 1868

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• Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  School, Government, Support

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.138, e-artnow sro

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

  Delphine de Girardin

  Promise, Republic, Proof

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• 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.

  Clara Zetkin

  Women, Battle, Principles

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

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Sound, Principles, Elements

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Los socialistas me consideran demasiado de izquierdas; los trotskistas, no lo bastante; los ecologistas dicen que soy demasiado feliz comiendo foie gras, defendiendo la energía nuclear y las plantas transgénicas; las feministas consideran que no soy suficientemente mujer; los anarquistas, una pequeñoburguesa que se ha vendido porque creo en el sufragio universal.

  Michel Onfray

  Creer, Feminista, Energía

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• Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

  Ernestine Rose

  Principles, Half, Slavery

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• 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

  Lynching, Should Have, Spirit

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.256, Penguin

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

  Otto von Bismarck

  Government, House, Nursery

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• Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

  Nelson Mandela

  Way, March, Dictator

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

  Nelson Mandela

  Voters, Way, Common

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to'the will of the people'the expression which the few desire.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Government, Expression, People

  Quoted in Arthur Livingstone (ed) TheMind and Society (1935).

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• Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say YES if they are political and juridical laws, imposed upon men by men.

  Mijaíl Bakunin

  Men, Law, Names

  "Rebellion".

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• Creo que la cultura occidental -estado de derecho, sufragio universal, etc. - es preferible a la cultura árabe: por eso hay millones de musulmanes en Escandinavia, y cuatro escandinavos en Siria. Siga el tráfico. Apoyo la inmigración, pero con asimilación.

  Mark Steyn

  Believe, Law, Support

  "Battered Westerner Syndrome inflicted by myopic Muslim defenders" by Mark Steyn, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 23, 2002.

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• Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.

  H. L. Mencken

  Encouragement, Birth Rate, Democracy

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• The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Freedom, Stupid

  Emma Goldman (2009). “Anarchism and Other Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• De hecho, el obstáculo más grave para la restauración de la civilización en Norteamérica es el sufragio universal. Dejar votar a todo el mundo no tiene sentido. Es evidente que no sirven para nada. Toda la idea huele al idealismo torpe de una sociedad marxista de instituto.

  Fred Reed

  School, Civilization, Ideas

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• I need [Beijing's] trust in order to develop universal suffrage. The more suspicions being expressed, the more difficulty we'll have in moving towards the final destination.

  Donald Tsang

  Order, Needs, Suffrage

  "Tsang to Hit Ground Running on Universal Suffrage". www.scmp.com. January 25, 2007.

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• It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Men, Dresses

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.121

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• Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?

  Max Lerner

  Issues, Government, Self

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• Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.

  Albert J. Nock

  Political, Mind, Mass

  "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 88), 1943.

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• Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Revolution, Suffrage, Universal

  On Europe after the1848 revolution. Quoted in A J P Taylor From Napoleon to the Second International (1993).

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