Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.... Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everyone will think it was always so, just exactly ...as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses were always hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon to-day has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, th...e gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are i...n bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... men and women are not yet free.... The slavery of greed endures. Little child workers, the hope of the future, are sacrificed ...to industry. Young men are sent out by the billion to die for profits.... We must destroy industrial slavery and build industrial democracy.... The people everywhere must come into possession of the earth [second, third, and fourth ellipses in source].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that w...ill make people less afraid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, termin...ates my enlistment, and discharges me cured.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cinna. I am not Cinna the conspirator. Fourth Plebian. It is no matter, his name's Cinna! Pluck but his name out of his heart..., and turn him going.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
First Plebian. Tear him to pieces, he's a conspirator! Cinna. I am Cinna the poet! I am Cinna the poet!... Fourth Plebian. Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »