"Wendell Phillips, whose wife was part of the American delegation, introduced a counter-motion that the women be seated as full delegates. He spoke: "It is the custom there in America not to admit colored men into respectable society; and we have been told again and again that we are outraging the decencies of humanity when we permit colored men to sit by our side. When we have submitted to brick-bats and the tar-tub and feathers in New England rather than yield to the custom prevalent there to not admitting colored brethren into our friendship, shall we yield to parallel custom or prejudice against women in Old England? We cannot yield this question... for it is a matter of conscience.... We have argued it over and over again, and decided it time after time, in every society in the land, in favor of the women... It is a matter of conscience, and British virtue ought not to ask us to yield.""
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Lawyers from the United StatesAbolitionistsFeminists from the United StatesOrators from the United StatesNative Americans' rights activists
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Bettina Aptheker about the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention, Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History (1982)
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Wendell Phillips
1811 – 1884
US-amerikanischer Politiker und wichtiger Redner der [[w:Abolitionismus|Abolitionisten]]
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