"If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?"
"Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness."
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Source: Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4 by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, 1902.
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