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"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 womans sharing in the movement."
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Frances HarperI do not believe that giving the woman the ballot is immediately going — Frances Harper
"I do not believe that giving the woman the ballot is immediately going to cure all the ills of life. I do not believe that white women are dew-drops just exhaled from the skies. I think that like men they may be divided into three classes, the good, the bad, and the indifferent. The good would vote according to their convictions and principles; the bad, as dictated by prejudice or malice; and the indifferent will vote on the strongest side of the question, with the winning party."
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States.
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"More than the changing of institutions we need the development of a national conscience, and the upbuilding of national character. Men may boast of the aristocracy of blood, may glory in the aristocracy of talent, and be proud of the aristocracy of wealth, but there is one aristocracy which must ever outrank them all, and that is the aristocracy of character"
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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."
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"A wrong done to the weak should be an insult to the strong"
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"power without righteousness is one of the most dangerous forces in the world"
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"If the fifteenth century discovered America to the Old World, the nineteenth is discovering woman to herself."
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