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Frances Harper on Women

1825–1911 United States

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In coming into her political estate woman will find a mass of illiteracy to be dispelled. If knowledge is power, ignorance is also power.

Woman's Political Future" Speech (1893)

If the fifteenth century discovered America to the Old World, the nineteenth is discovering woman to herself.

Woman's Political Future" Speech (1893)

So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move without woman's sharing in the movement.

Woman's Political Future" Speech (1893)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frances Harper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.