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Quotation from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill
“I consider it to be as entirely irrelevant to political rights as difference in height or in the color of the hair.”
Considerations on Representative Government, Ch. VIII (Project Gutenberg text)
Mill's argument that difference of sex is no ground for denying women the vote.
Citation: "I consider it to be as entirely irrelevant to political rights as difference in height or in the color of the hair." — John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government, Ch. VIII (Project Gutenberg text). (id mill-considerations-on-representative-government-q7)
Portrait: John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870, London Stereoscopic Company, Public domain.
