"Suffrage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has been a leader in the movement for woman's suffrage, and both by lecturing and writing has supported every effort put forth for the educational and general advancement of ...
— Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life • Orison Swett Marden
... Suffrage: 18 years of age, universal and compulsory; married persons regardless of age note: members of the armed ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... registering Belgian refugees and of providing French and Flemish interpreters was done by a voluntary organization—the London Society for Women's Suffrage (a branch of N.U.W.S.S.), which has always been notable for its admirable organization. It provided 150 interpreters for this work in a few days, and work was carried on at all the London Centres from early morning till midnight. When the Government took over the charge ...
— Women and War Work • Helen Fraser
... be going on now. I have a committee meeting for this afternoon. I can't for the life of me remember whether it's about suffrage — Oh, yes, I marched! — or about some ...
— Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers • Don Marquis
... it was defeated by the timidity, or mistaken notions of economy, of Northern statesmen. In my opinion this defeat accounts for the failure of the policy of reconstruction so far as it has failed. I do not believe that self-government with universal suffrage could be maintained long in any Northern State, or in any country in the world, without ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
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