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Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

Source: Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women, Boston, 29-31 Jul 1895.
-- Josephine St Pierre Ruffin, ( 1842-1924), US suffragist; She was a major force in the black women's club movement; led the First National Conference of Colored Women, Boston, 1895.

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