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Woodrow Wilson: The astonishing thing about the movement which you represent is, not that it has grown so slowly, but that it has grown…

On the recordSeptember 7, 1916
The astonishing thing about the movement which you represent is, not that it has grown so slowly, but that it has grown so rapidly.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the Suffrage Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey

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