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the right that powerful people kept inventing reasons you weren't ready for.
means The right to vote in political elections.
from From Latin suffragium, meaning a vote or the right to vote, and also the supportive cry of approval given at an assembly. The deeper roots are debated — some link it to suffragari, to vote for or support a candidate, and folk-tradition fancifully connects it to the noise of shouting backers. By the time it reached English in the 15th century via Latin and French, it carried the sense of casting a vote, and centuries later it became the rallying word of those demanding the franchise be extended.
- origin myth
- comes from Latin for support, not suffering
- new zealand first
- women voted nationally there in 1893
- saudi delay
- women couldn't vote until 2015
- hunger strikes
- jailed suffragettes were force-fed by authorities
- the long game
- some fought decades and died before winning
seneca falls convention — 1848 womens rights meeting in new york where elizabeth cady stanton declared women should have voting rights