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... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery. - Tennessee Claflin
Attribution: Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923), U.S. journalist, lecturer, and social reform advocate; relocated to England. Talks and Essays, vol. 1, ch. 11 (1897). Referring primarily to women’s exclusion from voting.

Categories: And Social Reform Advocate; Relocated To England, Journalist, Lecturer, Morality, Subordination Of Women: By Society, Woman Suffrage

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