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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. -- Victoria Woodhull
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. -- James Madison
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. -- Andrew Jackson
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females). -- Abraham Lincoln
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. -- Ambrose Bierce
Suffrage is the pivotal right. -- Susan B. Anthony
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. -- Anna Quindlen

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