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Are you women not human beings?
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The question challenges the idea that women should be treated as less than fully human. By asking whether women are human beings, it demands recognition of their equal human dignity and rights. Its simple wording makes exclusion appear plainly unjustifiable.
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- History of Woman Suffrage, Volume 4 (1884), digitized transcription
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