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

— Frances Harper Woman's Political Future" Speech (1893)

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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)

I felt the fight in me; but I don't want to have to fight all the time.

We Are All Bound Up Together" Speech (1866)

All that my yearning spirit craves
Is, Bury me not in a Land of Slaves.

I feel I am something of a novice upon this platform. Born of a race whose inheritance has been outrage and wrong, most of my life had been spent in battling against those wrongs.

We Are All Bound Up Together" Speech (1866)

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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