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Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor…

Quote byElizabeth Cady Stanton · 1815–1902

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (January 13, 1868)..

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Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning...We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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