What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?
I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
Tag: politics power activism dissent slavery human-rights rights abolition suffrage radicalism agitation liberties
But Mather's smile faded as he thought of what other provisions the charter contained. What would the godly say when they learned that the electorate was no longer to be limited to members of the Covenant but broadened to include propertied members of every Christian sect this side of papistry? This was a revolutionary innovation, whose consequences would be incalculable. Hitherto the limitation of the privilege of voting to the elect had been the very corner-stone of theocracy. It had been a wise and human provision designed to keep the faithful in control even when, as had long ago become the case, they were heavily outnumbered by lesser men without the Covenant. God who had not designated the majority of men to salvation surely never intended for the damned to rule. Yet now, under the new charter, it very much looked as if they might.
Marion L. StarkeyTag: democracy america theocracy suffrage
And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.
Richard M. ShermanTag: feminism suffrage mrs-banks
Be militant in your own way! Those of you who can break windows, break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property...do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion. Take me if you dare! (Emmeline Pankhurst, 1912)
Fran AbramsTag: feminism rebellion suffrage pankhurst
I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.
Emmeline PankhurstTag: women feminism memoir suffrage
I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.
Emmeline PankhurstTag: politics women history feminism suffrage
And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.
Gwenn WrightTag: gothic young-adult suffrage ya love-story yalit strong-heroine von-strassenberg gwenn-wright katherine-demure women-s-right
That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything.
Lou Henry HooverTag: women elections vote voting suffrage women-s-rights women-s-suffrage
Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.
William Earl MaxwellTag: corruption government voting suffrage
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
Noah WebsterTag: trust sacrifice suffrage interest immorality abuse citizen betryal
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