"Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox."
"I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice."
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Source: Anna Howard Shaw (2017). “THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA”, p.209, e-artnow
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