Quote#Politics & Power
Our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women…
Quote byLydia Maria Child · 1802–1880
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 1870 letter to Charles Sumner, collected in Letters of Lydia Maria Child (1882).
English (original)
our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually.
— Lydia Maria Child
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