Universal Adult Suffrage

Famous quotes containing the words universal, adult and/or suffrage:

    “All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it.”
    —Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)