“You say ‘the question involved is not new’—that the suffragists have ‘not developed a single new idea.’ Why should they? The demand rests on the same solid grounds of common justice, right, and social advantage that it always did.”
“She asks for her property; she asks for her rights, for her vote; she asks for her share in education, for her share in all the institutions of society, for her half of the whole world; and to this she is entitled.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1869
