To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.

Elizabeth Caty Stanton

Belong Boy Citizens Foreigners Fully Idiots Ignorant Insulting Longer Ourselves Out Quietly Recognized Rights Silly Submitted Thrust Too While

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