Suffragist Leaders and Their Quotes

Suffragist Leaders and Their Quotes

• Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880): "I am no advocate of passivity." - Age 87.
• Sojourner Truth (circa 1797-1883): "You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway." - Age 86
• Abby Kelly Foster (1811-1887): "Bloody feet, sisters, have worn smooth the path by which you come up hither." - Age 76
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902): "The right is ours, have it we must, use it, we will." - Age 87
• Lucy Stone (1818-1893): "Leave women, then, to find their sphere." - Age 75
• Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910): "Make your protest against tyranny, meanness, and injustice." - Age 91
• Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906): "Men, their rights, & nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less." - Age 86
• Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907): "Can anything be plainer than that a woman, being a person, is a citizen?" - Age 84
• Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893): "Who shall overrule the voice of a woman?" - Age 70
• Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898): "The soul must assert its own supremacy or die." - Age 72
• Frances Willard (1839-1898): "The guns are ballots and the bullets are ideas." - Age 59
• Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919): "In the people's voice there is a soprano as well as a bass." - Age 72
• Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947): "We women demand an equal voice, we shall accept nothing less." - Age 88
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931): "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." - Age 69
• Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954): "Lifting as we climb, onward & upward we go." - Age 91
• Lucy Burns (1879-1966): "Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage?" - Age 87
• Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973): "How shall we answer their challenge, gentlemen?" - Age 93
• Adelina Otero-Warren (1881-1965): "We will win." - Age 84
• Alice Paul (1885-1977): "Votes for women." - Age 92