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Alice Rossi1 quote
The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. — Alice Rossi · 1973James A. Garfield1 quote
If in other lands it be high treason to compass the death of the king, it shall be counted no less a crime here to strangle our sovereign power and stifle its voice. — James A. Garfield · 1881Malcolm X1 quote
It'll be ballots, or it'll be bullets. It'll be liberty, or it will be death. — Malcolm X · 1964Warren G. Harding1 quote
With the nation-wide induction of womanhood into our political life, we may count upon her intuitions, her refinements, her intelligence, and her influence to exalt the social order. We count upon her exercise of the full privileges and the performance of the duties of citizenship to speed the attainment of the highest state. — Warren G. Harding · 1921William O. Douglas1 quote
The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing—one person, one vote. — William O. Douglas · 1963