The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Topic

Oppression of women Gender relations Men and women

Speaker

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Source

Declaration of Sentiments (Speech)

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Women's rights activist Writer Activist

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United States

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Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Declaration of Sentiments." Women's Rights Convention. 19 July 1848, Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, NY, USA.

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

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I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Robert Mueller

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Oppression of women
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Robert Mueller
Source
Look Magazine
Medium
Magazine
Language
English
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
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Mueller, Robert. Quoted in Look Magazine. 5 Mar. 1957.