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Quotes for the month of April


The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
—19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – the result of 72 years of political campaigns for the women’s right to vote

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes. Every device of which human ingenuity is capable has been used to deny this rights
—President Lyndon Baines Johnson discussing the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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