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Topic·Voting rights✕clear

Political literature

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... On account of race, color, or previous condition or servitude.

1870

★ 5.5

Political literature

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... On account of sex.

1920

★ 5.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

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

Gray v. Sanders · 1963

★ 4.2

Speech · Political speech

It'll be ballots, or it'll be bullets. It'll be liberty, or it will be death.

Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet · 1964

★ 3.9

Feminist literature

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Alice Rossi

1973

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

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

Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield · 1881

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

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

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding · 1921

★ 1.9

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