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the right to vote

Although few of the women who pioneered women's suffrage lived long enough vote, the right was finally granted to women in 1920.

suffrage = the right to vote

Susan B. Anthony fought for women's political rights, especially suffrage.

suffrage = the right to vote

As a rule, I believe in universal, free suffrage, but I believe that in the South we are confronted with peculiar conditions that justify the protection of the ballot in many of the states, for a while at least, either by an education test, a property test, or by both combined; but whatever tests are required, they should be made to apply with equal and exact justice to both races.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

suffrage = the right to vote

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
George Bernard Shaw
An exact equality of suffrage between the members has also been insisted upon as a leading feature of a confederate government.
Hamilton, Alexander -- Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton
Remember this is the day of equal suffrage.
London, Jack -- Michael, Brother of Jerry
If this trouble comes to pass, the indiscriminate right of suffrage bestowed upon the masses will be a dangerous weapon in their hands.
de Balzac, Honore -- The Country Doctor
How did you vote on the suffrage amendment?
London, Jack -- John Barleycorn
Like many other former Abolitionists, she became interested in the movement for women's suffrage.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
He had overseen the drafting of a constitution in 1964, which turned Afghanistan into a democracy, offering universal suffrage and emancipating women.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
The Suffrage campaign was no doubt to blame.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
The world's far too complicated a place now for universal suffrage and such like.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
Child mortality declined by 8-15 percent with the enactment of suffrage laws....
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
That which universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty cannot be undone by the street.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
He listens as Lincoln talks of extending suffrage to literate blacks and those who fought for the Union.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
"Ginger Nut," said I, willing to enlist the smallest suffrage in my behalf, "what do you think of it?"
Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
"One admits that the arguments against the suffrage ARE extraordinarily strong," said a girl opposite, leaning forward and crumbling her bread.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
This became increasingly possible as universal manhood suffrage became general early in the nineteenth century.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage[167] of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth

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