The Vote
“New York City, early November, 1871… Victoria and Tennessee registered to vote… decid to set an example… surprised by how little opposition they met; their names were eagerly recorded. Four days later, on election day, and a group of women gathered… before heading out en masse to put equality of citizenship to the test. The Herald later reported that, ‘the irresistible Tennie read the… fourteenth and fifteenth amendments… The assembly thus satisfied themselves that the law was on their side, and confident in their right, sallied forth and swept down on the astonished inspectors,’” only to be denied the right to cast their ballots.
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Famous quotes containing the word vote:
“My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have a vote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.”
—Septima Clark (1898–1987)
“To vote is like the payment of a debt—a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)