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Mary Ashton Livermore: The age looks...

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The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

Source: What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?, Ch. 1, 1883.
-- Mary Ashton Livermore, (Dec 19 1820-1905), US journalist, social reformer, lecturer; She edited The Agitator, 1869 and Woman's Journal, 1870-72; lectured for 25 years for temperance and suffrage.


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