“When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.” MenTodaySexVoteRegister Author:Warren Farrell
“A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.” GovernmentSexVoiceLibertyColorStandingVoteFirmHinderStand Firm Author:Frederick Douglass
“The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.” BelieveReasonPastSexWhiteLandCreationSweetBirthDirectLogicVoteUltimateFleshHeatSquaresCommitteesManipulateProtestantsProtestantismFunky Author:Norman Mailer
“For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.” MenGivingMadeTwoCountryGivenSexEffortClassGenerationsGroupsVoteFortuneCommandSecureOther CountriesSuffrage Author:Carrie Chapman Catt
“You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.” IfsMayLongSexPleaseVoteTrialsCheatPeersJurySuffrageRight To VoteTauntingFree Love Author:Lucy Stone
“... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.” MenOpportunitySexVoteDiscriminationCriticizeRight To VoteSex Discrimination Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this [vote on same-sex marriage] out there.” PeopleFeelsMadeI CanDoneOpportunitySexDecisionOne ThingChangedVoteSightIrelandBloodyNew Zealand Author:Tony Abbott