Claflin

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    Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!
    —Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)

    If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?
    —Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)

    ... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man’s regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.
    —Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)