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about the country's rights and wrongs in your lust for power and self-indulgence, but it needs to be said from this rostrum that
Denmark's women despise you and brand you as a bunch of unpatriotic hirelings who betray the honour of Denmark." This was the first time any woman had spoken in the Folketing.
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as the minister responsible for defence. She snatched the speaker's bell, rang it vigorously and, pointing at the ministers' benches, declared: "Before you begin your work, you should know that in this chamber there is a man who has brought disgrace to
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insisted she should pay church taxes like everyone else. When she refused, in June 1908 the case ended with a
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