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Read more: Who can vote?In 1891, the Illinois constitution declared: “Idiots, lunatics, paupers, felons and women shall not be entitled to vote.”
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Read more: Protest“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest,” Eli Wiesel…
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Read more: Hope“Be hopeful,” John Lewis said. “Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.” Lewis, a civil rights leader, died July 17, 2020.
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Read more: Trouble“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble,” said John Lewis, the civil rights leader, who died July 17, 2020.
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Read more: Do something“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up,” said John Lewis. “You have to do something.”…
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Read more: Trust in GodDuring the struggle for women’s suffrage, some men—and even some women—seemed to think that the Bible says that women shouldn’t vote. “Trust in God,” Emmeline…
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Read more: We, the people“It was we, the people,” declared Susan B. Anthony. “Not we, the white male citizens. Nor yet, we, the male citizens, but we, the whole…
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Read more: Want equality?“If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it,” said Sojourner Truth.
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Read more: You can’t stop us“Women weren’t given the vote,” concluded the PBS series on women’s suffrage. “We took it.” As Sojourner Truth said, “You may hiss as much as…
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Read more: The vote is powerThe suffragettes battled more than seven decades to win the right to vote, writes Elaine Weiss in her book The Woman’s Hour. Finally, in 1920,…