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In its deepest significance, the monument “must always be symbolic of the fact that women have at last been recognized as human beings,” said Sara Bard Field, “and that they are a necessary factor in human progress.” "The very first Suffrage Association was called the American Equal Rights Association and its object was to enfranchise the negro as well as the woman.... We therefore wish to broaden our Woman's Rights platform and make it in name what it has ever been in spirit, a human rights' platform." |
This monument was not made for entertainment, but as an immortal record of the mightiest thing in the evolution of humanity. --Adelaide Johnson |