Ralph Waldo Emerson Suffrage Quote Card

Ralph Waldo Emerson Suffrage Quote Card

[Image: A quotation by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The text reads: "It is a very cheap with that finds it so droll that a woman should vote. If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote, through the hands of a half-brutal, intemperate population, I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations, should be allowed a full voices as an offset, through the purest of people."]; 9x14; print.

Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1847-1911; Scrapbook 9; page 2, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller002591/