“While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.” WorldYearsStillsTodayLastsCertainWomenViewsRightsCenturyEnlightenmentHundredOur WorldMentalityWomens RightsInferiorsWorld TodayConditioningNotable Author:Frederick Lenz
“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.” IfsMenShouldMeanLongStillsWould BeRunningTodayLawSocialEnjoyVisionRightsWrittenLandCenturyEqualShould HaveBillsPrivilegeDisasterOfficialsRealisticClothingsDragShelterWomens RightsEqual RightsInadequateBill Of RightsProclamationOverdue Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.” PeopleAmericaBlackStruggleSawsRightsCenturyCompetitionBlack PeopleWomens Rights19th CenturyRights In America Author:Karen DeCrow
“Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.” ShouldHumansGreaterCenturyExpressionBrokenActivitySlaveryBarriersArtificialWomens RightsSubmissionCraveAssertionTruestEmancipation Book:Emma Goldman Source: Emma Goldman