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Belva Lockwood: No one can...

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No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

Source: Address at Westminster Hall, London , c. 1886), In Lady for the Defense, by Mary Virginia Fox, 1975.
-- Belva Lockwood, (Oct 24 1830-1917), US social reformer, lawyer; She was the first woman to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, 1879; effective women's right advocate.


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