While I believe that with a fair election in the South, our electoral vote would reach two hundred, and that we should have a larg...e popular majority, I am yet anxious, as you are, that in the canvassing of results there should be no taint of dishonesty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I look forward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between the South and the other sections of the country. My chief ...purpose is not to affect a change in the electoral vote of the Southern States. That is a secondary consideration. What I look forward to is an increase in the tolerance of political views of all kinds and their advocacy throughout the South, and the existence of a remarkable political opposition in every State, and even more than this, to an increased feeling on the part of all the people of the South that this Government is their Government, and that its officers in their States are their officers. The consideration of this question can not, however, be complete without full reference to the Negro race, its progress, and its present condition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I ...read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can't see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote--eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In 1872 I received a request like this and I did register and vote, for which I was arrested, convicted and fined $100. Excuse me ...if I decline to repeat the experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have it ...for her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They tell us that women can bring better things to pass by indirect influence. Try to persuade any man that he will have more weig...ht, more influence, if he gives up his vote, allies himself with no party and relies on influence to achieve his ends! By all means let us use to the utmost whatever influence we have, but in all justice do not ask us to be content with this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Abraham Lincoln penned the immortal emancipation proclamation he did not stop to inquire whether every man and every woman in... Southern slavery did or did not want to be free. Whether women do or do not wish to vote does not affect the question of their right to do so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitute... a political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions a...nd a voice!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to... face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »