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Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

Suzanne LaFollette

The Beginnings of Emancipation · 1926

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LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

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