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“Equal rights meant just that, rights for both blacks and women, with the association working for both at the same time. Women should not be told to "stand back and wait." [Frederick] Douglas said that women should be generous and allow the Negro to get his vote first. A young woman in the audience replied that she did not think it generous "to compel women to yield on all questions ... simply because they are women.”
― The Ladies of Seneca Falls: the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement
― The Ladies of Seneca Falls: the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement
“Almost from the beginning, Lucy Stone had run-ins with the established code of female propriety. Every Sunday morning the students had to sit through a long chapel service. Lucy, who suffered from headaches, took her hat off one morning. She was charged by the Ladies' Board, which supervised the manners and morals of the coeds, with violating the Bible's teach that women must keep their heads covered in church.”
― The Ladies of Seneca Falls: the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement
― The Ladies of Seneca Falls: the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement
“An angry discussion followed, during which belligerent ministers, who had come to the convention in an attempt to disrupt it, read aloud passages from the Bible to disprove Antoinette Brown's contention of equality. They read passages like "Let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience," and "Likewise, ye wives, be in subection to your own husbands.”
― The Ladies of Seneca Falls: the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement
― The Ladies of Seneca Falls: the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement
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