| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 49024 |
| QUOTATION: | The history of mankind is the 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Seneca Falls Convention. As quoted in Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, part 3, by Miriam Schnier (1972).
From the “Seneca Falls Declaration,” formulated at the first women’s rights convention, held in Seneca Falls, N.Y. in 1848. Here, for the first time, American women demanded suffrage and other rights thus far denied them. Among those who organized the convention were Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), who would become two of the century’s most famous suffragists and social reformers. |
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