19th Amendment Quotes

Since finding out my great-great-grandma was connected to the suffragettes, I've learned so much more about them. I feel really proud of her and that it's my heritage.

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

Votes for women didn’t come until the 1920’s. Votes for Blacks didn’t effectively come until the 1960’s.

I know that a mother's advice is safest for her boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification.

It has become impossible to forget 'votes for women,' just as it was impossible to forget the reformation of Luther.

Women will vote by 1917.

As the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, I certainly would not be here today without the passion, dedication, and activism of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

While women were finally given the right to vote in the United States with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the Republican Party began to pave the way for women's suffrage decades earlier.

If you pass this 19th Amendment, you ratify the 15th .... Any Southerner doing this is a traitor to his section.

It would need more than the 19th Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

We learned about people like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington and Marian Anderson. Harriet Tubman was my favorite.

What few realize is the unique role the North Country of New York played in advancing women's rights in the United States.

Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal rights under the Constitution. My question for the GOP candidates: Do you support the Equal Rights Amendment?

In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.