“There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.”

— Emma Goldman

p. 219 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2162/2162-h/2162-h.htm#emancipation <br class="br">The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation (1906)

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