The purpose of all political organizations must be the protection of the natural and unchallengeable rights of Woman and Man: these rights are liberty, property, security and above all the right to resist oppression. Women are born free and remain the equal of men in rights.
Given that ignorance, disregard or the disdain of the rights of women are the only causes of public misfortune and the corruption of governments, we have decided to make known in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable and sacred rights of women from this day forth, the sex that is superior in beauty as it is in courage during the pains of childbirth recognises and declares, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following Rights of Women and the Female Citizen. Mothers, daughters, sisters, representatives of the Nation all demand to be constituted into a national assembly. THIS IS OUR DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE FEMALE CITIZEN Bizarre, blind, puffed up with the crassest ignorance, he wants to command, like a dictator, a sex that is blessed with every intellectual faculty he feigns to rejoice in the revolution and demands its equal rights - and then to say nothing more. Only man has cobbled together a rule to exclude himself from this system. Search, excavate and discover, if you can, sexual characteristics in the workings of nature: everywhere you will find them intermingled, everywhere cooperating harmoniously within this immortal masterpiece. Reconsider animals, consult the elements, study plants. Tell me, what gave you the sovereign right to oppress my sex? Your strength? Your talents? Observe the creator, examine nature in all its grandeur, and give me, if you dare, a pattern for this tyrannical power. Men, are you capable of being fair? A woman is asking: at least you will allow her that right. Below is an edited version of our translation of Olympe de Gouge’s Declaration of the Rights of Women read by Francesca Fiorentini in Ep.
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