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Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1867). “Address in favor of Universal Suffrage, for the Election of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, etc”, p.23
Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.