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... strike the words white male from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Age: 87 †
Born: 1815
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: October 26
Abolitionist
Activist
Feminist
Suffragist
Writer
Johnstown
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Dies
Swim
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