Elizabeth Graves

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“A great many will find fault in the resolution that the negro shall be free and equal, because our equal not every human being can be; but free every human being has a right to be. He can only be equal in his rights.”
—Mrs. Chalkstone, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2, ch. 16, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1882)

“the sweet-cupid-lipped and tassel-yarded
Delicate-stomached dwellers
In Pygmy Alley,”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)