Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.
ATTRIBUTION:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), U.S. suffragist, social reformer, and author. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2, ch. 20, by Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and herself (1882).
Speaking to the New York Constitutional Convention on January 23, 1867.
