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"This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses."

Susan B. Anthony, American Activist

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"This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses."

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"This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses."

Susan B. Anthony, American Activist

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