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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.
- 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
- 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
suffrage = the right to vote
suffrage = the right to vote
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