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On the recordSeptember 29, 1918
We shall not only be distrusted but shall deserve to be distrusted if we do not enfranchise them with the fullest possible enfranchisement, as it is now certain that the other great free nations will enfranchise them.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment

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