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“For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

“When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.”

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Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.”

World Stills Self Culture Justice Effort Half Diversity Social Justice Seeking Spite Alas Better Half

Book:I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Source: I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?”

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Author:Groucho Marx

“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.”

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Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.”

People Should Justice Half Diversity Social Justice Congress

Author:Jeannette Rankin

“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.”

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Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers