"I can but hope, comparing such an audience as this with the handful who met with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in the first Convention, in a little Wesleyan church at Seneca Falls, and seeing Henry Ward Beecher for the first time on our platform, and speaking such noble words for woman, I can but hope that it will not be as our friend Frances D. Gage expressed her fear it would, that the degradation which centuries had created among us, would require centuries to remove;"
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Lucretia Mott, "The Mind and Powers of Woman" (May 10, 1860)
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Henry Ward Beecher
1813 – 1887
US-amerikanischer Prediger
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