our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to w… - Lydia Maria Child

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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.