women's suffrage movement leader, in a letter to Julia Ward Howe recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library (October 16, 1873). See also: Dannenfelser, Marjorie (4 November 2015). "The Suffragettes Would Not Agree With Feminists Today on Abortion". Time. Archived from the original on 6 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.
While the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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