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"If We Be Indeed Democrats and Wish to Lead the World

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"...If we be indeed democrats and wish to lead the world to democracy,we can ask other peoples to accept in proof of our sincerity and our ability to lead them whither they wish to be led,nothing less persuasive and convincing than our actions. ...They are looking to the great,powerful,famous democracy of the West to lead them to a new day for which they have so long waited; and they think,in their logical simplicity,that democracy means that women shall play their part in affairs alongside men and upon an equal footing with them.
) ..We have made partners of the women in this war.Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?
This war could not have been fought,either by the other nations engaged or by America,if it had not been for the services of the women-services rendered in every sphere....
) ..I tell you plainly that this measure which I urge upon you is vital to the winning of the war and to the energies alike of preparation and of battle.
) ..And not to winning the war only.It is vital to the right solution of the great problems which we must settle,and settle immediately,when the war is over.We shall need in our vision of affairs,as we have never needed them before,the sympathy and insight and clear moral instinct of the women of the world....We shall need their moral sense to preserve what is right and fine and worthy in our system of life as well as to discover just what it is that ought to be purified and reformed.Without their counsellings we shall be only half wise."
What was one of Woodrow Wilson's arguments for passing the Nineteenth Amendment allowing women to vote?


A) That if African Americans can vote,then white women should be allowed to as well
B) That allowing women to vote would prevent them from turning against the United States during the war
C) That allowing women to vote is essential to winning the war
D) That after the war,the United States could revoke women's right to vote

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