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“Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,—not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us—the Irish!”
—Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)

“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.