Quote#Speech
Talk of giving women the ballot-box? Go on. It is a normal school,…
Quote byFrances Ellen Watkins Harper · 1825–1911
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "We Are All Bound Up Together" Speech (1866).
English (original)
Talk of giving women the ballot-box? Go on. It is a normal school, and the white women of this country need it. While there exists this brutal element in society which tramples upon the feeble and treads down the weak, I tell you that if there is any class of people who need to be lifted out of their airy nothings and selfishness, it is the white women of America.
— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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