{"quotes":[{"text":"The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the platform, the sheet lightning of the daily press, the entire literature, the political names and the intellectual reputations, the civil law and penal code, the liberté, égalité, fraternité and the second of May 1852—all have vanished like a phantasmagoria before the spell of a man whom even his enemies do not make out to be a magician. Universal suffrage seems to have survived only for a moment, in order that with its own hand it may make its last will and testament before the eyes of all the world and declare in the name of the people itself: Everything that exists has this much worth, that it will perish.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["itarian","itarianism","bourgeois","brumaire","cipolla","constitution","coup-d-etat","dictator","dictatorship","dynasty","fascism","france","french-republic","louis-bonaparte","magician","mario-and-the-magician","monarchy","mountebank","napoleon","press","republicans","revolution","socialism","spell","suffrage","third-republic"],"id":8439,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.","author":"William Earl Maxwell","tags":["corruption","government","suffrage","voting"],"id":16246,"author_id":"William+Earl+Maxwell"},{"text":"The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.","author":"Elizabeth Cady Stanton","tags":["kindness","stanton","suffrage"],"id":34625,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Cady+Stanton"},{"text":"If I am asked, What do you propose to substitute for universal suffrage? Practically, What have you to recommend? I answer at once, Nothing. The whole current of thought and feeling, the whole stream of human affairs, is setting with irresistible force in that direction. The old ways of living, many of which were just as bad in their time as any of our devices can be in ours, are breaking down all over Europe, and are floating this way and that like haycocks in a flood. Nor do I see why any wise man should expend much thought or trouble on trying to save their wrecks. The waters are out and no human force can turn them back, but I do not see why as we go with the stream we need sing Hallelujah to the river god.","author":"James Fitzjames Stephen","tags":["democracy","liberty","suffrage","voting-rights"],"id":40800,"author_id":"James+Fitzjames+Stephen"},{"text":"And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.","author":"Richard M. Sherman","tags":["feminism","mrs-banks","suffrage"],"id":50737,"author_id":"Richard+M.+Sherman"},{"text":"The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction men have been rewarded with monuments, with great songs and epics.","author":"Emmeline Pankhurst","tags":["feminism","gender","suffrage","suffragette","war"],"id":55903,"author_id":"Emmeline+Pankhurst"},{"text":"Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87.","author":"Mona Rodriguez","tags":["1920s","40-years-and-a-day","40-years-in-a-day","best-historical-fiction","book","cafe-society","dianne-vigorito","ellis-island","fiction","forty-years-in-a-day","hell-s-kitchen","historical-fiction","immigration","italian-american-book","italy","mona-marzano","mona-rodriguez","new-historical-fiction","new-york","novel","prohibition","statue-of-liberty","suffrage","suffragist-movement","top-fiction","women-s-rights","world-war-i","wwi"],"id":61760,"author_id":"Mona+Rodriguez"},{"text":"Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.","author":"Emmeline Pankhurst","tags":["feminism","gender","men","suffrage","suffragette","voting-rights"],"id":71973,"author_id":"Emmeline+Pankhurst"},{"text":"The substance of what I have to say to the disadvantage of the theory and practice of universal suffrage is that it tends to invert what I should have regarded as the true and natural relation between wisdom and folly. I think that wise and good men ought to rule those who are foolish and bad. To say that the sole function of the wise and good is to preach to their neighbors, and that everyone indiscriminately should be left to do what he likes, should be provided with a ratable share of the sovereign power in the shape of the vote, and that the result of this will be the direction of power by wisdom, seems to me the wildest romance that ever got possession of any considerable number of minds.","author":"James Fitzjames Stephen","tags":["democracy","equality","republicanism","suffrage"],"id":73371,"author_id":"James+Fitzjames+Stephen"},{"text":"Suffrage is the pivotal right.","author":"Susan B. Anthony","tags":["suffrage","right","pivotal "],"id":111957,"author_id":"Susan+B.+Anthony"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}