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* "Preamble - Mothers, daughters, sisters (and) representatives of the nation demand to be constituted into a national assembly.... Article II - The purpose of any political association is the conservation of the natural and impresciptible rights are liberty, security, and especially resistance to oppression. Article X - No one is to be disquieted for his very basic opinions; woman has the right to mount the scaffold; she must equally have the rights to mount the rostrum, provided that her demonstrations do not disturb the legally established public order.
Excerpt from the"Declaration of the Women's rights and of the Citizen"(1791), written by Olympe de Gouges (1745-1793)
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