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"In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women..." — Gloria Steinem

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.
Gloria Steinem
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