Indira Gandhi Quotes

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

The first step toward liberation is to use the power in hand ... and the power in hand is the vote.

We have waited long enough to get the vote. We want it now!

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.

The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.

When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.

In no sense of the word am I in sympathy with women’s suffrage ….I have no vote and I’ve raised hell all over this country.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

When I grow up I’m going to change the government.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

Give the woman the ballot and you will make her more important in the eyes of the world.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

I vote, but I don't feel that I'm achieving much when I do.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

You see, Leavers desperately need a psychological win. We need to feel our vote for change can actually change things.

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

Not everyone can march, but everyone can talk. And everyone can reach out, and everyone can vote.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.