“the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.” ProblemSocialFeminismEconomicSourceConvincedListsEndlessContemporaryLiberationWomens RightsLaundryScourgeBacklashEconomic Problems Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women
“My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?” WholePurposeOrderSocialRealizingMy FriendsAimWomens RightsDissolutionCompactSubversion Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith
“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
“...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether in Churchor State; and that the present arrangements of society, on these points, are a violation of human rights, a rank usurpation of power, a violent seizure and confiscation of what is sacredly and inalienably hers--and thus inflicting upon woman outrageous wrongs, working mischief incalculable in the social circle, and in its influence on the world producing only evil, and that continually.” WorldBelieveHumansStatesLawEvilI BelieveSocialVoiceRightsInfluenceHuman RightsCirclesViolentRegulationWomens RightsArrangementsViolationOutrageousMischiefSeizuresUsurpationViolation Of Human Rights Book:On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters
“As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.” HomePoliticalSocialResultsSunBearsHolyPromiseRisingWomens RightsAdvancementEmancipationSuffrageCrimsonWoman SuffrageSaffron Author:Frances Harper