| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36508 |
| QUOTATION: | Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mary A. Livermore (1821–1905), U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 22, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902).
In a letter to the sixteenth annual convention of the American Woman Suffrage Association, which was held November 19- 20, 1884, in Chicago. In fact, thirty-six more years would pass before women would be granted suffrage. |
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