Tennessee Celeste Claflin

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[Wikipedia] Tennessee Celeste Claflin, Viscountess of Monserrate, also known as Tennie C., was an American suffragist best known as the first woman, along with her sister Victoria Woodhull, to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, which occurred in 1870.

Quotes by Tennessee Celeste Claflin

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of…

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Abomination

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... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action…

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Action

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... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Absolute freedom

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Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of…

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Asks

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... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year…

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Birth

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We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged…

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Emancipation

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Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One…

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Anglers

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If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save…

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Choices

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Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

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Crime

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The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

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Extremes

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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…

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Adults

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... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

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Character

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While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our…

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Bane

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With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually…

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Glory

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