10 Matching Annotations
  1. Feb 2020
    1. Women having, then, the same qualities, have necessarily the same rights. Either no individual of the human species has any true rights, or all have the same; and he or she who votes against the rights of another, whatever may be his or her religion, colour, or sex, has by that fact abjured his own.

      this is an example of universality, one cannot be denied their rights as a person if all are entitled, neither on the basis of gender nor color.

    2. It is said that women, although superior in some respects to man—more gentle, more sensitive, less subject to those vices which proceed from egotism and hardness of heart—yet do not really possess the sentiment of justice; that they obey rather their feelings than their conscience.

      How can woman only be superior to man in the aspects of society that man had deemed undesirable for themselves?

    1. The beautiful understanding chooses for its objects everything that is closely related to the finer feeling, and leaves abstract speculation or knowledge, which is useful but dry

      How was it determined that women would not be able to understand the more complex ideas of nature abstract speculation?

    2. I am apt to suspect the negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites. There scarcely ever was a civilized nation of that complexion, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation.

      This is a false claim this is affixing itself through a pseudoscientific belief of racism that is constituent on the bereavement of a marginalized group unable to tell its story and the manipulation

    1. All we know for certain is that everything in common between men and women must come from their species and everything different must come from their sex.

      "in common...Species...different...sex... This is the largest misconception in this disciplinary contradiction that preludes modern discrimination, predicated from early 18th century literature.

    2. If man ought to please her in turn, the necessity is less urgent.

      Why is this been such a long standing one-sided issue for so long, and how has it perpetuated?

  2. Jan 2020