Politics Quotes

"I have always been in favor of the ballot for women but I have not committed myself to go on a stump and deliver speeches in favor of woman suffrage."

"I never heard of any women wanting to vote or to hold office. I only heard it argued that women did not have the right to vote or hold office."

"A system cannot fail the people to whom it was never meant to succeed."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."

"I declare that the true republic is such wherein there is no man who has authority to compel another to be his slave."

"This is the strategy of the west and of all the racists"

"The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly"

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"

"It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism"

"You cannot have capitalism without racism"

"The real problem is that we have a lower class which is a dependent class, living on poverty or living on welfare."

"What does it matter if a man sits at the lunch counter if he cannot afford to buy a hamburger?"

"The man who votes is the man who has a say in his own government."

"The law must serve the people, not the powerful."

"I am a radical, and I am glad to be one."

"The relation subsisting between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, all-commanding question for this age."

"The question of all questions is: What is the true character of this government?"

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."

"A line of argument often pursued is that the condition of the colored people has improved since emancipation."

"True democracy requires an educated and informed citizenry."

"I declare myself to be a woman's rights person."

"The true course is to give woman the ballot."

"I declare women must be allowed to participate in government."

"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public mind."

"Atlanta compromise speech captured the essence of practical advancement for the Negro race."

"The day may be approaching when the very name of England will be a symbol of shame among civilized nations."

"There is something that governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property."

"We have tried every other constitutional method that is known to political reformers, and we have failed."

"You cannot have capitalism without racism."

"The collective white man had nothing to lose by going to the Negro and offering him some tokens."