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Voting rights7 quotes
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. — 1870The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... On account of sex. — 1920The 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 · 1963It'll be ballots, or it'll be bullets. It'll be liberty, or it will be death. — Malcolm X · 1964The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. — Alice Rossi · 1973If 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 · 1881All 7 quotes →Women's rights3 quotes
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... On account of sex. — 1920The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. — Alice Rossi · 1973With 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 · 1921Civil Rights Amendments2 quotes
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. — 1870The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... On account of sex. — 1920Equality1 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 · 1963Fifteenth Amendment1 quote
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. — 1870Fighting for freedom1 quote
It'll be ballots, or it'll be bullets. It'll be liberty, or it will be death. — Malcolm X · 1964Nineteenth Amendment1 quote
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... On account of sex. — 1920