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Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

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Julia Ward Howe
Age: 91 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 27
Died: 1910
Died: October 17
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Suffragette
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New York City
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Julia Ward
Mrs. Samuel Gridley Howe
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We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
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While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
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The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.
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