The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey |
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Page 10 - WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION.
Page 15 - I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Page 144 - Declaration lacks the moving drama of the American Declaration of Independence or the French Declaration of the Rights of Man, because the United Nations document had to be translatable into five different languages.
Page 11 - We hold these truths to be self-evident: 1 1 ) That all men are created equal; (2) That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; (3) That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Page 143 - In no European country has the woman's rights movement been confronted with more unfavorable conditions; nowhere has it been more persistently opposed. In recent times the women of no other country have lived through conditions of war such as the German women underwent during the Thirty Years
Page 145 - Germany, too, marriage is not a lifelong "means of support" for woman, or a "means of support" for the whole number of women. Therefore the demands of woman for a complete professional and industrial training and freedom to choose her calling appear in the history of our time with a tremendous weight, a weight that the founders of the movement hardly anticipated.