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It is a life-and-death conflict between all those grand, universal, man-respecting principles which we call by the comprehensive term democracy, and all those partial, person-respecting, class-favoring elements which we group together under that silver-slippered word aristocracy. If this war does not mean that, it means nothing. - Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Attribution: Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921), U.S. minister, suffragist, abolitionist, and temperance advocate. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2 ch. 16, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1882). Speaking on May 14, 1863, at a national convention of the Woman’s National Loyal League.

Categories: Abolitionist, And Temperance Advocate, Civil War, Class System, Democracy, Minister, Suffragist

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