How to use "vote" in a sentence

We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote

Mary was writing about women and the vote a hundred years before women started fighting for it

Any woman who has the vote, and can read and write, can say thank you to Mary Wollstonecraft.

Examples of human rights are the right to vote; the right to think and speak freely; and the right to free education

Later, she also fought for the vote for women.

Women and the vote

The fight for the vote was one of the greatest fights that women have had

In the 1890s, parts of New Zealand and Australia were the first places to give women the vote

The first country in Europe to allow women to vote was Finland, which was then part of Russia

After Finland came Norway, which gave the vote to women in 1913

In the United Kingdom, the vote did not come until 1918

She was the leader of the "suffragettes" - the name of a group of women who fought for the vote.

Richard also believed in the vote for women

In 1889, Emmeline started the Women's Franchise League, which fought for married women to vote in elections

She did this because the government would not give women the right to vote

There were also some men who fought for a woman's right to vote

Winston Churchill - who later became prime minister - started his career against the vote for women, but later he agreed with it

In 1918, women over thirty got the vote after many years of fighting

On 2nd July 1928, women were given equal voting rights with men they could vote at the age of twenty-one

What about today? In the 20th century, women in many countries fought for the vote and got it

Little by little, women have got the vote in almost every country in the world.

Saudi Arabia is the newest country to give women the vote, in 2011

Hatoon al-Fassi was one of the first Saudi Arabian women to vote

In Saudi Arabia and some other countries, like Pakistan, it is difficult for women to go out to vote

This may mean that higher numbers of women will vote in the future.

In most countries, they can now vote

All over the world, feminist movements have fought, and are still fighting, for women's right to vote

The first wave, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was mostly about women's right to vote

The first wave of feminism in the West was mostly about getting the vote

Women in northern Europe and in places like the United Kingdom, the USA and Australia were all fighting for the vote in the last years of the 1890s and the early years of the 20th century.

Second-wave feminism was about more than the vote; it was about sexuality, family and work

We know that, in many countries, women started to get the vote in the first years of the 20th century

When Nancy became an MP, women could only vote at the age of thirty.

Nancy wanted women of twenty-one years old to vote

In 1928, women got the vote at twenty-one.

She won the "popular vote", which means that more of the Americans who voted, voted for her, but she was not elected.

This was 100 years after some women first got the vote and almost a hundred years after Nancy Astor entered Parliament.