Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Right is Ours

[W]e are assembled to protest against a form of government existing without the consent of the governed – to declare our right to be free as man is free.
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The right is ours. Have it, we must. Use it, we will. The pens, the tongues, the fortunes, the indomitable wills of many women are already pledged to secure this right.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton