"As our President said, we have in our army such minds as Spencer, and Mill, and I would add Buckle, and many others; and they are diffusing light, intelligence and civilization, and advocating the right. We have women also. We have Frances Cobbe; whose name I speak with pride and rejoicing; and in the literary world we have Charlotte Bronte, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and many others, who are consecrating their talents to the great cause of womanhood, and freedom, and right."
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Lucretia Mott, "The Mind and Powers of Woman" (May 10, 1860)
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Frances Power Cobbe
(4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist, and leading campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the (NAVS) in 1875, and the (BUAV) in 1898.
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